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What baseball’s “robot umpires” tell us about the future of work

For a sport that’s more than 150 years old, the opening of the 2026 Major League Baseball season is set to feature an unusual number of firsts. The official Opening Day on March 26 is the earliest in ...
Forbes

Player And Manager Arguments With Umpires Less Frequent In MLB

BALTIMORE, MD - CIRCA 1982: Manager Earl Weaver #4 of the Baltimore Orioles argues with a umpire during an Major League Baseball game circa 1982 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. Weaver ...
New York Magazine

Baseball’s Latest Innovation: A Fun New Way to Mock Umpires

“If they create a robot umpire that calls every strike exactly right,” the late, very entertaining baseball umpire Ron Luciano once said, “hitters will never let it survive. Whenever it makes a call ...
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Umpires vs. hecklers: The ultimate baseball rivalry

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Anyone who’s been to a baseball game has heard the thoughts of hecklers, but have you ever heard an umpire yell back? They might be tuning it out, but some things do get ...
The New York Times

The ‘Harvard of umpire schools’ closes as changing times favor tech over tradition

A mask hangs on the fence at the famed Harry Wendelstedt Umpire School not long before the final graduating class called its last out. Katie Woo / The Athletic ORMOND BEACH, Fla. — If it weren’t for a ...