No contest. Tim McClelland has won every SI player poll ever conducted for best umpire. each time getting more than twice as many votes as second place. The last vote was in 2006, and with more than 70 umpires from which to choose, McClelland got 29% of all votes!
http://sportsillustrated.CNN.com/2006/players/06/20/poll.0620/index.html
Jim Joyce is the worst MLB umpire of all time. Just look up Joyce and Armando Garagla
This is not true Jim Joyce made one bad call ... it was a big one but non the less one bad call ... Jim Joyce blow the call on a perfect game ... but he was just voted the best umpire in Baseball by the players ...
There isn't such thing as a baseball referee! Its a umpire! Go try to find it if you want to be an umpire soooooooooooooooo bad! Look on the internet!
1 umpire
233 pitches
It was 26 pitches
The NL and the AL used to maintain separate groups of umpires, but Major League Baseball combined them some years ago, and now, all umpire crews work both NL and AL games.
The cast of Major League Baseball 2K7 - 2007 includes: Bruce Silverman as Umpire
There isn't such thing as a baseball referee! Its a umpire! Go try to find it if you want to be an umpire soooooooooooooooo bad! Look on the internet!
1 umpire
Armando Galarraga.
The cast of Major League Baseball 2005 - 2004 includes: Marc Biagi as Crowd Dave Rivas as Crowd Chris Wilcox as Umpire
Yes, Jim Joyce still works for the MLB as an umpire.
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233 pitches
It was 26 pitches
Answer - 10. 9 defenders and the offensive batter.
The NL and the AL used to maintain separate groups of umpires, but Major League Baseball combined them some years ago, and now, all umpire crews work both NL and AL games.
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