Trivial Trivia-Umpire's Edition
 

OK gang, the idea is simple. A question will be asked, relating to umpires, and there will be a 24 hour window to correctly answer the question. If the question is answered correctly, the poster who answered the question will have the right to ask the next question. If however, the question is answered incorrectly, or the poster answers his own question, then the right to ask the next question will remain with the OP.

Confused yet??? :D:D:D:D

OK I'll start. In game three of the 1975 World Series between the BoSox and the Big Red Machine, Ed Armbrister laid a sac bunt and collided with Reds catcher Carlton Fisk who made an error on the throw that cost the Reds game three. The HP umpire ruled the contact incidental, so no interference was applied. Who was that HP umpire?

Ken Burkhart

<buzzz> WRONG!!!! Larry Barnett.

OK next question-
Which AL umpire, known for his flamboyancy, was also a mortal enemy of Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver?

<interesting tidbit> This same umpire booted Weaver out of both ends of a double dip.

The Coward
 

Ron Luciano

Give the man a Ceee-gar. OK Tim, the next question is yours.

Ok,
 

Who was the plate umpire the night that Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's Career Home Run record? . . . I will accept only the correct answer.

Regards,

Could that be Mr. Bruce Neal Froemming??

Ah,
 

No not close.

#4

Regards,

I'll try one more time:

Would that be Doug Harvey?

(If I bomb, you can give the answer, then the right to ask the next question is your, Tim)

Tim C -

David Davidson

GarthB knew the correct answer. He was just following rule #1.

Hmm,
 

I asked this question for two reasons:

1) A famous deceased umpire's obit say he worked the plate. He did not, he worked second base that tnight.

2) I wanted to see who would goggle the answer. No one has ever called Mr. Davidson "David" -- he was known as "Satch" from the days of being a little boy.

Regards,

The box score I found lists him as Satch.

My man, Billy Buckner, was playing first base for the Dodgers.

D

Who's Bill Buckner???? :D :D :D

Asked by a life long Boston Fan!

Only the greatest clutch player in the history of the Mets.

Only reason I knew it was David Davidson is because as a boy growing up we had a VHS of baseball trivia, bloopers, etc. He was reffered to as David Davidson in the video as a the trivia question. Also had the plate for Fisk's homer in 75 against the Reds. I watched that thing every day when I was little.

Game 1 of the 1970 World Series, Baltimore at Cincinatti.

Who's this umpire?

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/8899/carbo2qd3.gif

Ken Burkhart

I don't know, but that's not what I meant by "getting your nose into it." That is just a tad too close to the play.

Garth nailed it.

It was a baltimore chop in front of the plate. Burkhart moved out in front to call fair/foul, not realizing that the runner was going on contact (not sure if the bases were loaded with 2 outs or what). Bernie Carbo was the runner, he slid around both the catcher and Burkhart. The catcher fielded the ball with his hand with an empty glove attempted to tag Carbo. Burkhart, with his back turned, called Carbo out, and Sparky Anderson came out

Burkhart, for whatever reason, kept calling Sparky "Danny". Not sure what that was about. Baltimore won 3-2, and went on to win the series in 5.

And,
 

The catcher is Elrod Hendicks.

Regards,

OK next question:

Name the umpiring crew who worked the "Pine Tar" game in 1983.

Now that's my era!

Tim McClelland, Joe Brinkman, Drew Coble, and Nick Bremigan

If you ever played the original nintendo, you'll enjoy this as it relates to Bill Buckner:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JArXRxuVTgY

I understand Buckner was so distraught after that game that he walked out onto Yawkey Way and stepped in front of a moving bus -- and it went right through his legs. :D

Who worked the plate for the longest game (in terms of time) in major league history? Bonus points if you can name either of the teams involved.

Next time you see that video, check out McCleland's knees all dirty. Ahh, the days of the knee "stance".

Or (at that time in the 1980's): What do Michael Jackson and Bill Buckner have in common? They both wear gloves only on one hand.

James Bremond Evans

Nope. White Sox and Brewers. Jim Evans worked the plate during that 24 inning contest which lasted eight hours and some change over two nights.

OK Next question:

Why was the American League known as a "High Strike" league?? (Drug references notwithstanding ;) :D)

Use of the balloon protector kept umpires' heads higher, thus being able to call the high strike. The NL umps used the inside protector, which allowed them to get down lower, call a low strike, and fewer high strikes.

Next question:
Who was the first umpire to wear glasses on the field?

Ed Rommell.

Next question: What major league umpire was known to challenge players and fans to fights, and actually went into the stands and punched a fan?

He was also behind the plate for the game when Babe Ruth "called his shot."

George Makergurth.

The pitcher was Charlie Root and the catcher was Gabby Hartnett.

Lou Gehrig hit a home run on the next pitch.

You are supposed to ask a question at this time to keep the game going. And it's Magerkurth, but close enough.

Who was the HP umpire when Roger Maris hit 61*? Tell me because I don't know either.

Back in the 80s when the Toronto Maple Leafs were the most horrible they've been, a goalie named Alan Bester played for them.

After he left he Leafs, a joke circulated that he tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of a bus. He survived as the bus went right between his legs. :D

Classic spoonerism.

I am glad they finally removed that stupid *. Too bad it took them so long to get it done. It should never have happened.

Bill Kinnamon was the plate umpire that day in October of 1961, when Maris deposited the ball in the right field seats. Tracy Stallard was the pitcher who gave up the dinger.

Of course, Bill Kinnamon had himself quite an umpire school at one time too.

Next question: What year did they start using 6 umpires on World Series games?

Saw a really cool T-shirt on a gorgeous buxom blonde girl in the crowd at the Padres/Red Sox game Saturday night.

It was in Red Sox blue, with the Red Sox font: BUCK FOSTON

What did the t-shirt say? :D :D

Actually it was BUCK FOSTON on two separate lines, but I think it would have been even better side by side.:D

I think the proper answer is, "They both wear gloves on one hand for no apparent reason."

Buckner Expressway
 

I didn't know they had a Yawkey Way outside of Shea.

Geesh, caught me on a technicality. :eek: :p

1947 was the first year in which there were 6 umpires used for the World Series.

Name the first year in which four umpires were used for the world series?

Bouns Question:Seeing as I am one of the few Canadian umpires on here, name the two Canadians who hail from the same province and have won the IBF Umpire of the Year award?

Your man Billy Buckner was the LF who climbed the fence until he saw it land in the glove of Tom House.

I'd assume Steve "you're not my Padre" Garvey was the 1B that evening.

OK next question:

Emmet Ashford, Eric Gregg, Charlie Williams, Chuck Meriwether, and CB Bucknor. What do all of these MLB umpires have in common??

All have the same colour skin as Troy Fullwood. :D

WRONG...the HP ump that day, was Roy von Graflin, an AL umpire, who is in <a href="http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n304/exapno/Called_Shot1932.gif">this famous picture here</a>, trying (and failing) to keep a sh** eating grin off his face. Too bad nobody ever asked HIM about about the goings on between Ruth and Gabby Hartnett...

Magerkurth DID work that Series...he just was not behind home that day.

BTW...Hartnett denied to his dying day that Ruth called it..but he sure looks like SOMEthing happened there....

I do believe you're right as Magerkurth worked first base.

OK Folks, here's a toughie. Who was the last umpire to use a balloon chest protector in a World Series??

Well I wasn't there to witness it, but Magerkurth is listed in the box score that I saw as the plate umpire, so that was what I went by.

What box score? Magerkurth couldn't even remember what the count was on the pitch. That's how legends get started.

You're right, Magerkurth was working first base. I misread the box score.:o

Actually
 

The reason I wanted to be accurate on the PU for Aarons #715 is that in Ed Sudol's obit it says that he was the home plate umpire that night.

Sudol worked second base (Lee Weyer and Frank Pulli were the other two umpires).

Yes, everybody's Padre was at first for the Dodgers.

What number did Satch wear on his plate coat that night?

Regards,

speaking of Sudol, why are the following dates significant in his career? :

May 31, 1964

April 15, 1968

September 11, 1974

HINT: there is one team associated with each of the games on these dates...good luck!

Uhh folks, I had the question:

http://forum.officiating.com/showpos...8&postcount=51

OK Folks, the answer is Marty Springstead in the 1983 World Series.

None of them have ever been in my kitchen.

OK..another hint...each of these games are in the MLB record book...

Ed Sudol was the home-plate umpire on May 31, 1964, the first extra innings game ever at Shea Stadium. It came in the second game of a twin bill with San Francisco and lasted 23 innings. He also worked the plate in the 25-inning game the Mets and Cardinals played on Sept. 11, 1974, at Shea, which is the longest game by time, and the 24-inning game the Mets and Astros played at the Astrodome on April 15, 1968, which was the longest extra innings game with out a score, 22 innings.

Who was the plate umpire who refused to call a hit batsmen against Don Drysdale, thus perserving Drysdale's scoreless innings streak in 1968?

Harry Wendelstadt.

Welll......that Mets/Giants doubleheader is:

1)the longest doubleheader by time in MLB history

2) Game two is the second longest game time-wise in MLB history - second only to the White Sox/Brewers debacle in 1986 (Jim Evans behind the plate, btw)- but THAT game was suspended and continued later, so that Met game is the game played the longest uninterrupted.

3) And is tied with the 86 game as the longest game, by innings, played to a conclusion - the 1920 Brooklyn/Boston Braves 26 inning 1-1 tie is the longest game (26 innings)...but nobody won!

Game 1 was around 2:25 or so, while Game 2 was an excruciating 7:23 -without stopping

I have a friend who was working at Shea that year selling beer, and he said that by the 14th inning, all the vendors and stands had run out of EVERYthing, and that all the Harry M Stevens workers ended up sleeping in the upper deck by games end. The doubleheader started with about 50,000 people there to start...about 500 were there at the end....

Ed Kranepool had been with the Mets AAA club in Buffalo the day before, and played both games of a doubleheader. Right after the game, he was informed the Mets had called him back up - so Kranepool drove overnight directly to Shea, took about a 2 hour nap, and proceeded to play EVERY inning of BOTH games! :eek:

Willie Mays was actually moved to SS for a few innings around the 13th or 14th inning....

The Mets/Astros game is still the longest shutout by innings, and the Cards/Mets game is tied with that Sox/Brewers game as the longest night game by innings in history...although, again, they played that Met game uninterrupted also!

You don't think Sudol had a BIG zone, do you?

www.retrosheet.org has the box scores of all these games -poor Ron Swoboda went 0/10 in the 1968 game - that would take a month to make up!

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_gmlg.shtml

oops...the White Sox/Brewers marathon was 1984

o.k....For what is umpire Dennis Cregg most famous for?

(And the answer is NOT being a PBUC evaluator).

Plate umpire of the longest game, 33 innings,Pawtucket vs Rochester, 1981. Dennis Cregg

We have a winner. I actually heard "the rest of the story" from him over dinner one night when I was in the minors and he had just evaluated me as a PBUC evaluator.

What umpire called four balls on Eddie Gaedel?

Ed Hurley.

Who was the umpire on the field for Aaron's 715th home run and also for Rose's 4,191st hit?

Fred Brocklander?

The rules say you have to answer a question to ask one.

Sorry. The thread had been dead for a few days so I asked the question.

Nope, not Brocklander.

He was behind the plate for Rose's game.

I don't believe the error (and no call) cost the Reds that game

That would be the late Lee Weyer, who worked the plate that night (Rose). Rose singled in his first at bat, and tripled in the 7th inning off (the late also) Eric Show. Weyer was at 3rd base for Aaron's 715th.

Next question: What umpire had the same nickname as a famous legume, and was the plate umpire in the famous Norman Rockwell painting, "The Bottom of The Sixth?" Hint: He was a National League umpire who favored the outside "Balloon" chest protector.

Brocklander was at 2nd base for Rose's game on 9/11/85 when Rose tied and broke Ty Cobb's record.

OK That would be Beans Reardon.

Next question-Equipment: +POS and All Star both introduced a mask back in the mid 1990's touted as the lightest mask on the market (Rawlings returned fire not long after). What is the model of that mask (I'll accept either the +POS or All Star model designation)?

Would that be the +POS Zero Gravity?

Nopers. That mask is still in production. The mask I refer to is the +POS SUL.

Next Question: From the late 1960s to around 1980, the AL Umpires wore what color plate coat??

Red was the color off all the coats in that era.

Not in the NL.

Uhhhhhh........
 

What does that have to do with the question you asked? He gave the correct answer for the question that you asked. He did not need to qualify his answer, as it was contained in the question. The question concerned the AL only, and all of their coats were red.

OK OK, no need to get touchy ;)

What umpire appeared with Boog Powell in Miler lite ads?

Jim Honochick.

Who was the plate umpire for Maris' 60th and 61st home runs (which were hit in different games)?

Hmmm,
 

Officially the American League Umpires did NOT wear red coats.

The American League President's Office said the were "maroon."

Just trying to keep things accurate.

Regards,

PS -- Bill Kinnamon was on the plate for #61 (only run of the game) and five days before in Baltimore for #60.

The American League of Fashion Police (ALFP) said they were "butt ugly".

Good job on the Maris question.

I thought he said that they looked like a bunch of maroons wearing them!:D

Joe Brinkman said they looked like a bunch of Captain Kangaroos.


BTW, Next question: We all know about the Jim Evans Academy of Professional Umpiring and the Harry Wendelstedt Umpire School. What names were these schools under before their current incarnations??

I believe Jim Evans moved his school from Arizona to the former Joe Brinkman facility. Harry's school was originally the Al Somers Umpire School. Joe Brinkman's school originally was the Bill Kinnamon Umpire School.

This is off the top of my pointy little head, so I may not be exactly right here.

Nope. You are correct


Next question: Name at least one of the two National League umpires who were allowed to use the Outside chest protector.

Well, I already used this one in another question: Beans Reardon. I still get to ask the next question from a prior answer:

There was a chest protector (not much of one as it turns out) which I used for about 2 months of my first season. It was made by Wilson. It was covered in a canvass-like cloth material, had little white shoulder caps which were attached with shoe strings. Could get you seriously hurt. Name that chest protector model.

Hint: Once had an umpire school.

OK would that be the Bill Kinnamon Model??

No, please try again.

jocko conlan

Jocko had a school? WRONG!

Try Again.

OK, since nobody is playing anymore, I'll just give the answer. I know y'all have been just a-dyin' to know.:rolleyes:

George Barr.

First school for umpires. Horrible, yet strangely widely used chest protector.

The other is Jocko Conlan.

Next question: Which AL umpire was a former professional wrestler??

Ken Kaiser.

Next question. Who was the first AL umpire to work the plate wearing an INSIDE chest protector for a World Series game?