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John Gaffney baseball card. John H. Gaffney (June 29, 1855 – August 8, 1913), nicknamed the "King of Umpires" and "Honest John" was an American umpire and manager in Major League Baseball. He was baseball's first great umpire, and played a pioneering role in the use of multiple umpires in baseball games.
Reyburn has been an umpire in the Midwest League (2002), Florida State League (2003), Eastern League (2004–2005) and Pacific Coast League (2006–2009). He has served as an MLB call-up umpire in 2008 and 2009. He worked the Taiwan qualifier of the 2013 World Baseball Classic in November 2012. [2]
Mahrley began working as a Minor League Baseball umpire in 2007. [3] He umpired in the Gulf Coast League, New York-Penn League, Midwest League, Carolina League, Florida State League, Eastern League, and the Pacific Coast League.
[1] [5] [6] [7] He also umpired in the 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. [8] Reynolds was the third base umpire for Rickey Henderson's 3,000th hit on October 7, 2001; that game was also Tony Gwynn's final MLB game. [9] Reynolds was the second base umpire on May 29, 2010, when Roy Halladay threw the 20th perfect game in MLB history. [10]
AL umpires wore Bremigan's number 2 on their sleeves in his memory throughout the 1989 season. No AL umpire wore the number again through 1999. Umpire Jerry Crawford wore number 2 in the National League , and kept it when the umpires from both leagues merged into one staff in 2000.
John Patrick Kerin (March 3, 1875 – March 16, 1946) was an American professional baseball umpire. He umpired 265 American League games from 1908 to 1910 . [ 1 ] Kerin also umpired in the Eastern League and the Southern League from 1911 to 1920 .
Ed Hurley's career as an American League umpire was punctuated by a number of noteworthy events and incidents in baseball history. One of the most memorable was when Hurley was behind the plate in 1951, and St. Louis Browns' owner, Bill Veeck, sent Eddie Gaedel, a 65-pound player of very small stature (3' 7"), to the plate as a pinch hitter.
The first game of Minor League Baseball on April 4, 2006, began with a replacement umpire. [6] The umpires demanded a $100 per day salary increase and a $10 per diem increase. In the 2000 contract that AMLU initially signed with PBUC, rookie umpires were getting paid $1800 per month and senior umpires were getting paid up to $3400 per month.