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With the somewhat renewed interest in the helmet vs. mask thread, I thought this would be a good time to post the results of my observations of MLB umpires this season.
When watching a game or the highlights of it on Sportscenter, I've been keeping track of the umpires in MLB who wear hockey style masks.
I've seen the following umpires wear hockey style masks this season:
Mark Wegner
Gary Cederstrom
Bill Welke
Tim Welke
Larry Young
Mike Dimuro
CB Bucknor
Greg Gibson
Tim Timmons
That is 9 umpires out of a total of 68 (from the list of umpires on the MLB roster page I just looked at). That works out to slightly more than 13% of MLB umpires are wearing the hockey style helmets. I wonder how many guys in your current association wear them and if those numbers are comparable?
It will be interesting to see how the numbers move in MLB over the coming years. Maybe there is something to this hockey style mask thing?
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