Baseball is back ... childish and charmless.” Of Ron Luciano’s memoir The Umpire Strikes Back (which I loved as a kid), he noted that “I never believed one word in it; this is a series ...

Umpire Hunter Wendelstedt left the game he was working Wednesday after suffering a scary injury on a line drive. Wendelstedt was working first base during the game between the New York Mets and ...

MLB umpire Hunter Wendelstedt was able to walk off the field Wednesday after taking a line drive to his head while working first base during the game between the Minnesota Twins and New York Mets.

It is one of the toughest careers to obtain and one of the most scrutinized jobs in sports, being a Major League Baseball umpire. There are only 76 full-time umpires, and three of them — Chris ...

Great umpires tend to blend into a baseball game, making the men in blue ... Lazaruk Day” as a small ceremony for the long-time umpire took place before the game between host Medford Tech ...

MLB umpire Mark Ripperger is receiving praise for how he called a recent game. Ripperger was behind home plate for Thursday's game between the Kansas City Royals and the Minnesota Twins.

Major League Baseball is also probably pretty pleased that Ripperger now holds the most recent “perfect game” for an umpire. After all, his predecessor Hoberg was just fired by MLB over a ...

Mount Marty salvaged one game in extra innings, but nothing could salvage the umpire’s strike call from online criticism. If you missed it, you’re not alone. Few people follow NAIA baseball.

This has been the primary cultural understanding of the umpire for more than a century. It’s perhaps the most unifying experience in baseball: No matter the level of play or the rooting interest ...

Former Major League Baseball umpire Gerry Davis, left, mentors budding officials at the third annual New Hampshire Little League umpire clinic Saturday at the AutoFair SportsDome in Goffstown.