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1996 Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump

1994 Replay shows A's Bobby Witt beat KC's Gagne to 1st in 6th but ump Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, runing Witt's perfect game

1992 Bernice Gera, 1st female basball ump (1969 NY-Penn League) dies at 61

1988 Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump

1985 Cards' Joaquin Andujar suspended for 10 games for bumping an ump

1981 Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no

1978 Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls

1976 Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame

1974 Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day

1972 Plate ump and catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump and Tom Haller is Tigers catcher, Kansas City Royals win 1-0

1960 White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run home run is disallowed as ump called time

1951 NL ump Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players

1946 S Venkataraghavan, cricket, Indian off-spinner, Test ump, ICC referee

1945 A's catcher George George punches ump Joe Rue gets suspended

1942 New York Yankees Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 and suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season

1941 Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout

1941 Eddie Mayo (LA-Pacific Coast League), spits in face of ump Ray Snyder

1937 Ken Palmer, cricketer, 1-190 in only Test for England, now Test ump

1935 Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs manager Charlie Grimm and Chicago players W English, B Jurges and B Herman for actions in World Series

1924 Test cricket ump debut for Frank Chester, vs. South Africa at Lord's

1922 Babe Ruth suspended 1 day and fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump

1920 Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game

1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly

1909 Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment

1903 Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies

1901 Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching and spitting on an ump

1885 Arthur Dolphin, cricketer, Yorkshire and England keeper, later Test ump


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