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I saw the ball was game, and always coming back for more. In order that it might set a record I concluded it would be wise to let the ball play until it wept down and out.

On the August 4, 1908 game between the Cardinals and the Dodgers in which only one ball was used for the entire game, and Klem's consideration in the 8th inning to possibly replace the battered orb

William Joseph Klem
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Umpire
HOF 1953

Darling has that palm-ball, or whatever he calls it -- we've seen it before -- that backs up a foot or more, it looks like, and that's what gets Larkin the first time. The other time -- what was it, the seventh? -- the pitch just gets away from Darling. He's trying to hold a one-run lead late in the game -- no way he wants to hit anybody. Nobody thought different.

After a Mets game in which pitcher Ron Darling hit Cincinnati SS Barry Larkin twice, and not considering that a warning to the pitcher was in order

Harold Douglas "Doug" Harvey
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Umpire
HOF 2010

I immediately got the feeling I was wrong on the call when every Baltimore guy on the field charged at me with intent to maim.

On miscalling a foul ball as a home run

Ron Luciano
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Umpire

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