The St. Cloud area is in need of more baseball/softball umpires and officials in general. St. Cloud Officials Association ...

A 2023 survey by the National Association of Sports Officials (NASO), which included 35,000 officials across the nation, showed referee registration dropped around 30%, and the average age of referees ...

Died: 12/27/1995, Springfield, Ill. • Barlick was a professional umpire for five decades, including 27 seasons working in the National League. He reached the Majors at the age of 25 in 1940 and ...

Opening Day is finally here, which means we have actual baseball after 147 days of waiting (with the exception of a couple games in Japan). If only MLB could have gotten its streaming service ...

Great umpires tend to blend into a baseball game ... advice for anyone who is thinking about putting on the mask and chest protector. “If they think they want to do it, they should got try ...

Over his 50 years as an umpire, Bruce Lazaruk tries his best not to be seen on the baseball diamond. But that doesn't mean he ...

borderline strike calls from umpires, the players prevailed – but just barely. Major League Baseball’s tryout of a challenge system utilizing automatic ball-strike technology resulted in 52.2% ...

The backstory: The South Jersey Umpires Association calls Bruce Lazaruk a mainstay. They are celebrating him for fifty umpiring baseball games and says it is a big deal at the high school level.