Three Generations of Umps

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

Three Kincade generations umpire first game together | recordonline.com

almost beats the Wendlestadts working a game or two together...

Ive known 'grandpa' a few years, and he has a lot of cool stories about working spring training games.

Anybody else know of something like this?

[Kevin Finnerty]

Wow!

That is a cool story.

[RogersUmp]

Great read!

I just got my son started this year as a 13-year old. He still plays and was only able to call 7 games. He said he enjoyed it! I heard one mom standing next to me (didn't know I was his dad) say he needs glasses at one of his games. I just kind of chuckled and asked him about it after the game. He said he didn't remember hearing that one. Great start!

It would be awesome if we had a 3-generation game sometime down the road, too!

[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.

Hock9

[MrUmpire]

Great brother act from the past: Umpire Bill Haller (the smarter brother), and long time Giants Catcher, Tom Haller.

[johnnyg08]

cool story...thanks for posting

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by MrUmpire

Great brother act from the past: Umpire Bill Haller (the smarter brother), and long time Giants Catcher, Tom Haller.

Newer brother act from the present: Umpire Jim Wolf and his brother Randy, a pitcher with the Dodgers. Jim is not allowed to work the plate in any of Randy's games due to a potential conflict of interest.