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Post by FredFan7 on Jan 14, 2013 2:08:13 GMT -5
1989 World Series. Umpire from 1973 - 1992.
If you never saw him live, you missed a treat.
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Post by nyasablue on Jan 15, 2013 17:25:44 GMT -5
Gotta love Dutch! Also gotta love that video they 'suggest', with the Padre relief pitcher who did his imitations of various mid 80s NL umps - he nailed every single one of them....but especially Dutch ;D
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Post by howard63 on Jan 15, 2013 20:25:51 GMT -5
That was Mark Grant, who I believe later became a broadcaster for the Padres. Besides Dutch, he did excellent imitations of John Kibler, John McSherry, Frank Pulli, Eric Gregg, and I'm sure many others. He was terrific.
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Post by BTFS Admin on Jan 15, 2013 21:16:11 GMT -5
Good stuff!
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Post by cj on Jan 20, 2013 10:38:54 GMT -5
My favorites.....Shag Crawford (my friend and I when we were teenagers used to imitate him holding the catcher's back and called him Shag the F** which I'm sure was never true), Augie Donatelli (sp.) from his knees, Frank Secory who showed o emotion whatsoever even calling strike 3 in the 7th games of the World Series and my special favorite Chris Pelekoudas...the ball was on the way back to the pitcher before he would signal a strike no matter what. Both Ed Vargo and Lee Weyer signaled strike 3 completely differently from strikes 1 and 2. I could identify who the home plate umpire was if I came in late to most any NL game; they all had distinctive styles and that was encouraged or at lerast not discouraged. The AL was another issue (I still see some old tapes on MLBN and can identify the NL um,pires but rarely the AL).
Of coursde we had the same in the NBA and the NHL where most of the officials had their own distinctive styles and you knoew when Mendy Rudolp0h or Sid Borgia or Norm Drucker was doing a game in the NBA and Bill Friday or Art Skov or John Ashley was doing an NHL game. My favorite was the NHL never had a referee's signal for a goal....some did nothing but stood there (Wally Harris) others pointed at the goal scorer one (Dave Newell) raised his hand and again I can still watch old tapes of big games and immediately know who the referee was (even watching Barclay League soccer, you can't miss Howard Webb, that's for sure). Today, the leagues have tried to homoginize all the officiating styles for the loss of in dividuality.
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Post by FredFan7 on Jan 20, 2013 17:47:24 GMT -5
cj, me too. I grew up on NL ball and I could tell who the home plate umpire was sometimes by the style of mask worn, style of chest protector, or stance behind the plate. If not then, definitely when he signaled strike.
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Post by nyasablue on Jan 20, 2013 18:34:52 GMT -5
cj, me too. I grew up on NL ball and I could who the home plate umpire was sometimes by the style of mask worn, style of chest protector, or stance behind the plate. If not then, definitely when he signaled strike. Lee Weyer and his beat up WHITE inside protector
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Post by cj on Jan 20, 2013 20:19:52 GMT -5
Lee Weyer up down side on strike 1....up down and side on strike 2 but just up on strike 3....
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Post by lefty17 on Jan 21, 2013 15:15:40 GMT -5
I saw Dutch officiate some HS basketball games in the late 1970's, similar style to Earl Strom. He was excellent, but never could work tournament games since Spring Training games were going by then. His partner was Larry Van Alstyne, who was football coach at St. Norbert College and is now booking officials for Packer practices and works most of them himself.
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Post by FredFan7 on Jan 21, 2013 15:40:42 GMT -5
Many baseball umpires worked basketball in the offseason as both of those regular seasons complimented each other.
Doug Harvey worked high level college games and in the ABA for a few years. Bill Kunkel also worked ABA.
Dave Phillips was a college basketball referee and was supervisor of officials for Conference-USA for several years.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 17:18:15 GMT -5
Always like to watch the Dutch Man!! A class act!
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