Commandments:
#1: Keep your eye on the ball.
#2: Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forgive and forget.
#3: Avoid sarcasm. Do not insist on the last word.
#4: Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
#5: Hear only things you should hear - be deaf to others.
#6: Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
#7: Watch your language.
#8: Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
#9: Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
10#: No matter what your opinion of another umpire, never make an adverse comment regarding him. To do so is despicable and ungentlemanly.
Ford Frick - Commissioner of Baseball
1949
Gee, they seem old but pretty darn reliable.
Dr. Ron's -
Peace
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