Three Generations of Umps

[Kevin Finnerty]

Haller caught only 59 games that year behind Bill Freehan. Of the six Detroit games his brother worked that year--all at Detroit--Haller caught four of them. Bill Haller worked the bases in the first three of the six, a series in late May. Then, on July 14, Bill worked the plate and Tom caught all nine innings of a 1-0 loss.

Can you believe that? He had to have a nail-biter!

[tballump]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

Haller caught only 59 games that year behind Bill Freehan. Of the six Detroit games his brother worked that year--all at Detroit--Haller caught four of them. Bill Haller worked the bases in the first three of the six, a series in late May. Then, on July 14, Bill worked the plate and Tom caught all nine innings of a 1-0 loss.

Can you believe that? He had to have a nail-biter!

And the 2nd base umpire, Bill Kunkel, a former MLB pitcher, worked in a Spring Training game with his son Jeff who played shortstop for Texas in 1984.

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by tballump

And the 2nd base umpire, Bill Kunkel, a former MLB pitcher, worked in a Spring Training game with his son Jeff who played shortstop for Texas in 1984.

Only in the sport of baseball could something so trivial and non-important actually be so interesting and remembered all these years.

Isn't baseball great? An article from Sunday's Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/sp...0trivia&st=cse

[tballump]

Yes, and Haller and Neudecker would end up being supervisors and evaluators for a lot of the old AL MLBU up there right now, and of course Neudecker was the last to wear the balloon.