Foul call: Umps rip background checks (Boston Globe)

[Irish Envy]

Baseball Umpires are livid that Major League Baseball has sent investigators to their hometowns, allegedly asking neighbors a series of questions that include whether the ump belongs to the Ku Klux Klan. World Umpires Association president John Hirschbeck and union spokesman Lamell McMorris said yesterday that Tom Christopher , the Milwaukee-based supervisor of security and investigations in the ...

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