The boys of summer are back and ready to equal or improve on last year’s season, which saw the Reno Aces competing for the ...

And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The looming figure in blue with a booming voice and the personality of a junkyard dog has always been a unique character in the ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires. A situation is a flash of irritation, a simmering temper, a plea for ...

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers.

If you paid attention to spring training at any point in the past five weeks, you may have noticed something a little different. No, it wasn’t this year’s edition of the gaudy hats, though ...

Great umpires tend to blend into a baseball game, making the men in blue barely noticeable. Bruce Lazaruk is regarded one of those types of umpires. However, while he might not be seen ...

DUNEDIN, Fla. — After realizing he would never be a professional athlete, Vic Carapazza is in his 14th season as a Major League Baseball umpire. “The only other thing to be part of this game ...