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Hall of famer: Bill McGowan umpired with vigor and style.(baseball)
"SOMEDAY YOU CAN SELL THIS for a hundred bucks at a church bazaar," he said, handing me a snow-white Reach baseball that he'd signed along with Ted Williams, Nellie Fox, Mickey Mantle, and Yogi Berra. It was November of 1954. He was Bill McGowan, dean of the American League umpires and my next door neighbor. He died a month later after suffering a heart attack.
Regarded as the best "balls and strikes man" of his time, McGowan or "Mac" as he was better known to the players, was the Iron Man of the men in blue umpiring almost as many consecutive games (2,541) as Cai Ripken, Jr. played in (2,632).
He "called a ball a ball and a strike a strike" in the ...
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