Umpires Quotes

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“I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.”
Leo Durocher

“A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.”
Thomas Boswell, Why Time Begins on Opening Day

“Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.”
Thomas Boswell, Why Time Begins on Opening Day

Ring Lardner
“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be either a pitch or a person, stealing is legal, and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or the ball.”
Ring Lardner, Lardner on Baseball

“Doug Harvey was a stickler for the rules. When Harvey was in the minor leagues, all the other umpires would go out to a bar. But he’d be back in hotel room to spend at least one hour a day reading the rules. He knew the rule book better than anybody else.”
Peter Golenbock