Word: umps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what the doctor ordered for Harvard after both games of Saturday's doubleheader against Brown came down to the wire. "I guess the first inning really loosened everybody up," rightfielder Mike Stenhouse said after the game. "You knew it was a blow out when the Yale coach told the ump to keep the game under control 'even though my team...
Weak-Whistled Ump...
...came when Crusader coach Jack Whalen tried to pinch hit his pitcher Rick Jasinski for his center fielder. This brought a storm of protest from Harvard coach Loyal Park who said that the pitcher could only bat in the DH spot. "I don't know the rule," the ump said when he overruled Park's objections, "and neither does he [pointing to his fellow official in the field...
...game was delayed for ten minutes in the top of the sixth and the ten or twelve spectators hoped the umpire would call the game to mercifully end the then 8-0 slaughter. But the ump, apparently not a proponent of euthanasia, resumed the game when the rain let up to a mere sprinkle in spite of muddy basepaths that resembled swamp roads...
...those close calls, as Sciolla slid in just as the throw came in from the red-masked catcher Bill Ryan. The umpire called him safe and the Minuteman infield called the ump blind. Obviously, Sciolla remained right there at the bag. Have you ever seen an umpire change his call...