umpire

     

A referee is a person who has authority to make ecisions about play in many sports. Officials in various sports are known by a variety of titles, including: referee, umpire, judge, linesman, timekeeper or touch judge.

Trivia about umpire

  • In baseball one's behind home plate & one's behind each base
  • In 1999 Nestor Chylak was the first of these inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame since Bill McGowan in 1982
  • He usually has the first--& the last--word in a baseball game
  • In a June 19, 1846 game, J.W. Davis of the N.Y. Nine was fined 6 cents for swearing at this person
  • From old French "non" & "per" meaning "not equal", a person who decides when things are not equal
  • "Casey At The Bat" ends with Casey & his teammates piling onto & pummeling this person at the plate

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