1.   And baseball umpires think they have it bad?

2.   Baseball umpires and officials seem to understand that players police certain situations themselves.

3.   Baseball umpires noticed, too.

4.   He shows pictures of Secret Service agents disguised as priests, baseball umpires, foreign military officers and construction workers.

5.   It is not written that baseball umpires have to be in triathlon shape.

6.   Start a bench-clearing brawl by playing the batter a little too much chin music and a major-league baseball umpire will eject you from the game.

7.   Steve Palermo, the former baseball umpire who suffered a spinal cord injury, visited with Thomas before he left for Miami.

8.   Whose numbers are right means little to Allen, because he has a different reason why NFL officials should be paid as well as baseball umpires and basketball referees.

9.   A Japanese professional baseball umpire will take time off to accept responsibility for a missed call, a spokesman said Tuesday.

10.   Baseball umpire John McSherry died after collapsing during a season opener between the Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.