Thread: Come On Blue
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Old Thu Feb 20, 2003, 04:05pm
PublicBJ PublicBJ is offline
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It's a baseball/softball umpire thing. When I umpired ASA softball, we wore the same Elbeco blue shirts that the US Postal Service wears. (Same manufacturer and everything, just a different patch on it.)

Players would always call umpires "blue". I always thought it sounded nicer than "Ump".
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