Red Ormsby
Baseball Umpire (1895-1962)
Emmet Thomas "Red" Ormsby (April 3, 1895 – October 11, 1962) was an American professional baseball umpire who worked in the American League from 1923 to 1941. Ormsby umpired 2,537 major league games in his 19-year career, in addition to working in the 1935 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and in four World Series (1927, 1933, 1937, and 1940).
Pitching career
Ormsby began his baseball career in 1913 as a pitcher in the Wisconsin–Illinois League. He posted a 14–13 win-loss record while playing for the Green Bay Bays. In 1914, he pitched for Green Bay, Waterloo, and Omaha. He then served in the Marines during World War I.
Umpiring career
In 1921, Ormsby started his umpiring career in the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League. He moved on to the Western League in 1922, before being hired by the American League in 1923. In 1927, he required a police escort from the field in Philadelphia after a foul ball ruling on a blast hit by Ty Cobb. Fans rioted after Cobb and Al Simmons were both ejected from the game. At a 1929 Philadelphia-Cleveland game, Ormsby sustained a concussion when was hit in the head by a glass bottle intended for another umpire.
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