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Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

~Bill Klem

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An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

~Bill Klem

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Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

~Bill Klem

Topics: Action Ball Completed Eye Fix Follow Glove Goes He His Holds Moment Only Pitcher Place Plate Play Stay Takes Throws Until Where Your

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I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

~Bill Klem

Topics: Back Feet Home Least Plate Reduced Thirty-Five Umpires Walk

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That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.

~Bill Klem

Topics: Arm Boxes Call Cent Entitled Even Guy He Hear Know Much Seat See Signal Twenty-Five Voice

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The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

~Bill Klem

Topics: Best Cannot Fans Game Recall Umpires Which Who Worked

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The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

~Bill Klem

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There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

~Bill Klem

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It ain't nothin' till I call it.

~Bill Klem

Topics: Call Nothin Till

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Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

~Bill Klem

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: February 22nd, 1874

Died: September 16th, 1951

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