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Originally posted by Carl Childress
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Originally posted by GarthB
I am sincerely curious and by no means intend any insult; but what kind, or level, of baseball refers to the base umpire as an FU?
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Garth: In Texas, we referred to the base umpire as "the field umpire" until the mid 70s. I imagine FU is still around in many parts of the country.
Contrast what the FED does: Here's a three-man crew: U1, U2, U3. U2 is at first!
Now that's worse than FU.
Even Blaine's FU.
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What I meant to write was "but in what kind, or in what level of baseball is the base umpire still referred to as an FU?
Heck, I remember some referring to the BU as the "grass umpire", even on a dirt field. I guess that "GU" is being used somewhere.