Young man, if that bat comes down, you’re out of the game

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

Jobs Player Umpire
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 Guy Hands Voice
I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
BILL KLEM

Feet Home Umpires
To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.
BILL KLEM

Baseball Games Religion
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 Sports Team
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

Mistake Team Umpire
Young man, if that bat comes down, you’re out of the game
BILL KLEM

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

Called Heart Wrong
An angry player can’t argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
BILL KLEM

Anger Away Player Walking
Baseball is more than a game to me, it’s a religon.
BILL KLEM

Baseball Games

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