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Died. William J. Klem, 77, "baseball's greatest umpire," a favorite of sentimental sportwriters and unsentimental players alike; after long illness; in Miami. Starting out in baseball as a bush-league first baseman in Rochester, N.Y., when the game was still a rowdy, brawling affair, he became a National League umpire (1905-41) and eventually the league's honorary umpire in chief, officiated in more World Series (18) than any other umpire. A man who always called them as he saw them and claimed he never saw them wrong, he once proclaimed his faith: "Baseball is the greatest...
Retired National League Umpire Bill Klem, 75, smitten by his share of oaths and pop bottles in almost 50 years of calling decisions, was on the receiving end of a new kind of demonstration. At a Polo Grounds ceremony arranged by baseball writers, damp-eyed Bill Klem caught a broadside of cheers and gifts from fans, players and managers...
...their victory the Blue swept all eight of the singles matches, beginning with New England champ Rolor Ray's defeat of Thorn Kissel, the Crimson's number one man, and going through John Roberts; who lost to the Eli Victor Klem...
...even got along with umpires-until arguing with umpires became part of his managerial business. Umpire Bill Klem once called a doubtful third strike on him, and added: "You can't hit 'em without swinging at 'em, you Mississippi runt." Ott replied: "That kind of hurts me. . . . Everyone ought to know I come from Louisiana." In his 20 years with the Giants (one more than any other National Leaguer has spent with one club), his easy manner and boyish smile have been almost as effective...
...Seven Hall of Famers: Honus Wagner, Tris Speaker, Walter Johnson, George Sisler, Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Manager Connie Mack; and crack Oldtimers Duffy Lewis, Roger Bresnahan, Red Murray, Umpire Bill Klem...