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AP: Longtime NL umpire Shag Crawford dead
Published 7/12/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
AP: Longtime NL umpire Shag Crawford dead Longtime major league umpire Shag Crawford, patriarch of a family of prominent sports officials, died Wednesday. He was 90. Jerry Crawford said his father died at an assisted living facility in suburban Philadelphia. For someone who was going to be 91 in August, he was in pretty good health for a long time, Crawford said by telephone. Jerry Crawford became a big league umpire in the mid-1970s, around the time his brother, Joey, became an NBA official. ... Born Henry Charles Crawford, Shag called more than 3,000 games as a National League umpire from 1956-75. He worked the World Series three times, the NL championship series twice and handled three All-Star games Crawford, one of the founders of the umpires union, ended his active career in 1975 after getting into a dispute with baseball over the rotation of umpires in the World Series.

The Griddle: Catching up on news you probably already knew
Published 7/13/2007 at The Griddle
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