Check out this video for some  of the most basic but important fundamentals of umpiring. Of special note here are some of the positional and communication elements of the two-man umpiring crew.

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by Patrick T. Reardon Chicago Tribune I’ve become a fan of Jim Joyce. He’s the major league umpire who blew the call Wednesday on what would have been the final out of the perfect game that Armando Galarraga was pitching for the Detroit Tigers against the Cleveland Indians. Like a lot of baseball fans, I…

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19 March 2015 Nick G (from umpirebible.com) Baseball is unique in that one of the central and most important features of the field of play is completely invisible. There are no lines that mark it, no buzzers or bells that go off when it’s touched. There is a five-sided plate in the ground beneath it,…

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