NEW YORK (AP) — Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball on Monday for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games and for intentionally deleting ...

Major League Baseball announced Monday it fired an umpire for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games. MLB said umpire Pat Hoberg was also fired for ...

Viewers of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves on Sept. 1 will see at least some of the game from a different perspective — the umpire’s. It was ...

The fifth annual Eric Cooper Memorial Bowling Tournament was a home run, and those in attendance were able to see Cooper’s influence live on. Eric Cooper, a major league baseball umpire, grew up in ...

This weekend, Jen Pawol is set to be the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game. NPR's A Martinez speaks about the landmark moment with Keith Law, who covers the MLB for The Athletic. For ...

MILTON, Ga. - Fred Miller has called balls and strikes on the baseball diamond for just about two decades, but on Father's Day he was thrown a curveball of sorts when he said a coach punched him. "I ...

Major League Baseball has fired umpire Pat Hoberg after he was caught sharing the sports gambling accounts of a professional poker player who had bet on baseball. Hoberg used the accounts to bet more ...

An umpire ejected a PA man for protesting a call by playing "Three Blind Mice." Aug. 2, 2012— -- For a baseball umpire to eject a coach or player from a game is commonplace. On much rarer ...

Umpiring baseball games is the only job I’ve ever had where you’re expected to be absolutely perfect on day one and continuously get better each and every day after that. That might sound like a ...

The one constant through the years, James Earl Jones famously said as he stood in the middle of a cornfield, has been baseball. And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The ...

Baseball fans are quick to think the player is safe, but they're often wrong. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) – Because the speed of sound travels slower than the speed of light, ...