Major League Baseball Umpires

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Found by SABR in the 01-May-1886 Police Gazette.

Thanks to SABR for locating Quinn!

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Found by SABR in the 10-Feb-1901 Chicago Tribune.

Thanks to SABR for tracking Power down!

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Discovered by SABR on p. 119 of Edward Curley's Old Monticello.

Thanks to SABR for tracking Mapledoram down!

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Found by SABR in an official portrait as a judge in Puerto Rico.

Thanks to SABR for locating Odlin!

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Found by SABR in the 31-May-1890 Sporting Life.

Thanks to SABR for finding Becannon!

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Found by SABR in a group photo with his cousin, President Woodrow Wilson, in the 11-Jun-1916 Chicago Tribune.

Thanks to SABR for locating Wilson!

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Found by SABR in The Political Blue Book: An Official Manual of Buffalo and Erie County New York.

Thanks to SABR for tracking Scheu down!

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Found by SABR in the 19-Dec-1920 Boston Post, touting Kelley's record as a long-distance voter. He lived in Argentina at the time, but traveled to Boston every election year to cast his ballot.

Thanks to SABR for tracking the remote Mr. Kelley down!

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SABR noticed that missing umpire Mills is the same person who headed the Mills Commission.

Thanks to SABR for making the connection!

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Discovered by SABR in a Findagrave post by OOTP user Penale52.

Thanks to both Penale52 and SABR!

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Found by SABR in James Cox's Notable St. Louisans in 1900.

Thanks to SABR for locating Medart!

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Pictured as a player on the 1874 Louisville Eagle club.

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Pictured as a player on the 1874 Louisville Eagle club.

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Pictured as a player with the 1866 Lowell (MA) club.

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Found John Wildey in picture posted by John Thorn on his blog

http://ourgame.mlblogs.com/2014/08/27/baseball-of-the-bygone-days-by-jimmy-wood-part-3/

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Found by SABR in the NYPL digital collection.

Thanks to SABR for tracking Daniels down!

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I found this image on Ancestry.com for a John Scott Robb from South Fayette, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, born Feb 4, 1860. I am assuming this is the same man as the person who umpired an American Association game in Pittsburgh in 1886. Retrosheet lists John S. Robb as being born in 1860 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania with no death information.

The man I found on Ancestry died on March 8, 1939 in Pittsburgh. I don't know if SABR can verify that these two are the same men, but I think it has to be a match.

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Found on Ancestry.com, listing his year of death as 1929, which Retrosheet does not have.

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Originally Posted by Penale52

I found this image on Ancestry.com for a John Scott Robb from South Fayette, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, born Feb 4, 1860. I am assuming this is the same man as the person who umpired an American Association game in Pittsburgh in 1886. Retrosheet lists John S. Robb as being born in 1860 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania with no death information.

The man I found on Ancestry died on March 8, 1939 in Pittsburgh. I don't know if SABR can verify that these two are the same men, but I think it has to be a match.

Agreed. Everything I found seems to point to John S. Robb Jr. being the umpire in Pittsburgh on 05-Oct-1886.

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Found by SABR in an 1874 Yale University team photo.

Thanks to SABR for tracking Avery down!