
Effectively Wild Episode 2000: We Thought of More Things We Like About Baseball
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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The Importance of Umpiring Yourself
I recently learned that it used to be that when an umpire couldn't work the game because either the umpire got sick or the umpire passed out from heat exhaustion. The players would simply do the umpiring themselves and that I mean you're thinking oh man 1887 sure was weird but no this happened like up to kind of World War II ish a lot less common in the 20th century than we thought. Dan Hirsch pull all the player umpires he had Dan Hirsch pulled all the player Umpires yeah so there are basically three ways for people to get their stamiller. That's actually a very clear and there are basically two different types of way
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