The short-lived league had teams in Poughkeepsie and Kingston, among others, and is known “for several oddities and firsts,” ...

Terry Dolan, beloved umpire and volunteer, was killed in a car crash last summer. But now his name will live on at the fields ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires. A situation is a flash of irritatio ...

Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

Since he was a child, Cherry Hill resident Richard Glazer has loved baseball. Now at 82, he spends about six months a year as ...

Most new players found the league by accident. They were just walking through Golden Gate Park when they saw something they ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — March marks the dawn of a new year of baseball and softball with MLB spring training in full swing, collegiate seasons already underway and high school and youth ...

In the image above, Tom Hanahan shows the positioning that is usually taken when an umpire is working first base. Which is ...

It’s little surprise that “MLB umpire ... Baseball Rules and the separate yet equally dense Major League Baseball Umpire Manual.) It requires an emphasis on conditioning.

Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...

But could ABS automate the game a little too ... So are robot umpires next? Follow every MLB game: Latest MLB scores, stats, schedules and standings. Major League Baseball this spring experimented ...