Trying like hell to remember that retired Umps name!!
GD IT!
My brother pitched a no hitter in a game he called. That ump never got to call a no hitter in his entire time major league umping, if you can believe that.
He was so excited after that game he got tickets to a Chicago White Sox and NY Yankee game in Chicago and took my dad and my brother down to watch it. Took them into the Sox locker room after to meet all the guys.
If my brother had a fast ball he told him he could have got him into the minors. It was all JUNK. He clanked when he went up to the mound.
Lots of old minor league players would play in that local team league. Those were the days...baseball was fun.
There was a retired Detroit Tiger pitcher that pitched in that league...Heller? Cant remember. He was a relief pitcher for the Tigers.
John Hiller pitched for Felch for a while after he retired.
This also happens up there.