Bill McGowan

Bill McGowan umpired eight World Series and four All Star games during his 30-year career. He once worked 2,541 consecutive games.
Read More >Bill McGowan umpired eight World Series and four All Star games during his 30-year career. He once worked 2,541 consecutive games.
Read More >When Lee MacPhail joined his father Larry in the Hall of Fame the pair became the first father-son duo to gain baseball’s highest honor.
Read More >Kenesaw Mountain Landis was baseball’s first commissioner and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame shortly after he died in 1944.
Read More >Bowie Kuhn served almost 20 years as legal counsel for Major League Baseball owners before becoming the game’s 5th commissioner in 1969.
Read More >Known as the Father of Baseball Umpires, Bill Klem worked a Major League record 18 World Series and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1953. Be sure to visit our page on Facebook.
Read More >As president of the Western League, Ban Johnson reorganized and transformed it, finally re-branding it as the American League in 1900.
Read More >The only man elected to both the baseball and football Halls of Fame, Cal Hubbard was a three-time NFL champion with the Green Bay Packers.
Read More >SARB ranked Doug Harvey as the 2nd greatest MLB ump ever, Referee magazine selected him as 1 of the 52 most influential in officiating history.
Read More >William Hulbert was a founder of the baseball’s first professional league, the National League. Later he was the president of the Chicago franchise.
Read More >William Harridge was largely responsible for bringing about the first All Star game after which he tweaked the schedule to preserve Lou Gehrigs’s streak.
Read More >"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball…"
~Jacques Barzun, 1954