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

In my heart, I never called one wrong.
BILL KLEM

Called
To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.
BILL KLEM

Baseball Games
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

Baseball Eye
Bill Klem
BILL KLEM

Umpire
An angry player can’t argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
BILL KLEM
Bill Klem
BILL KLEM

Feet Umpires
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

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

Entitled
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

Games Hundred
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