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Leo Durocher
“I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.”
― Leo Durocher

“A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.”
― Thomas Boswell, Why Time Begins on Opening Day

Ring Lardner
“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be either a pitch or a person, stealing is legal, and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or the ball.”
― Ring Lardner, Lardner on Baseball

“Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.”
― Thomas Boswell, Why Time Begins on Opening Day

“Doug Harvey was a stickler for the rules. When Harvey was in the minor leagues, all the other umpires would go out to a bar. But he’d be back in hotel room to spend at least one hour a day reading the rules. He knew the rule book better than anybody else.”
― Peter Golenbock