Umpires

The Call From Hell!

The Call From Hell!

Last week, Bill Schaefer described for us what was "Maybe the Best Play Ever." Today he follows up with the other end of the spectrum: "The Call From Hell." It's hard to argue with Bill's assessment in either case!...
Fun With Baseball Ejections!

Fun With Baseball Ejections!

With all the 'heavy writing" we do around here, every once in a while it's fun to step back and just have a little fun. So I thought this might be a good time to put out of my old file cabinet an essay I wrote about four years ago on an overlooked baseball topic: ejections...
Fun With Baseball Ejections!

Fun With Baseball Ejections!

In writing about Stan Musial the other day, someone mentioned that - not surprising - Stan had never been ejected from a game over his 22-year career. This little tidbit of information got my wheels spinning; and so I thought it would be fun to delve a little further into a topic that is almost always overlooked: baseball ejections.