Three Generations of Umps

[Hock9]

While they never had a chance to work together, it's pretty impressive (at least to me) that 3 generations of Runge made it as ML umpires (Ed, Paul, Brian).

Other impressive officiating families - Crawfords, and several examples of father/son or uncle/nephew (Wendelstedt, DiMuro, Gorman, Carey's in FB [brothers], Welke's, McCauley's (NHL), Devorski's (NHL), probably others although I'm not as familiar with the NBA and NFL rosters.

And there are player-related examples - the 3? Alou's in baseball, 6...count 'em, 6 Sutters in hockey who made it to the NHL.

Not sure if there's an apples to apples comparison here, though, since there are far many jobs for players in any sport than there are for officials.

But impressive nonetheless.

Hopefully I didn't take this too far off-topic.

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