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Quotes about Umpire


"Strike one" the Umpire said.
From the bleachers black with people there rose a sullen roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore,
"Kill him! Kill the Umpire!" shouted some one from the stand--
And it's likely they 'd have done it had not Casey raised his hand.

Ernest Lawrence Thayer

A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.

Dale Unknown

Good leaders are like baseball umpires; they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right.

Byrd Baggett

Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.

Madame Dudevant

Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.".

John Mcsherry

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

Jim Murray

Why are the umpires, the only two people on the field who aren't going to get grass stains on their knees, the only ones allowed to wear dark trousers.

Katharine Whitehorn

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