"Kill The Umpire!"
May, 1954
out! safe!selected from his book of humorous sports stories, "Now I'll Tell One."Umpires are stubborn people. They have to be. An ump who was easily swayed one way or another wouldn't be worth the price of a bleacher admission in a close ball game. The men in blue learn, therefore, to be stiffbacked about their decisions. An occasional dramatic incident, however, sometimes serves to change a mind here and there.A Coast League game at Tacoma, Washington was being rained out during the s...
