The league will debut new rules this season, including the pitch timer, which means umpires will have a brand-new signal to call. It’s a big spring for MLB umpires. As the game invites seismic ...

Even if you were to concede that umpires would give signals to Hoy, they did not use them with anyone else. It was not until 1907 that the hand signal became standard for umpires.

Until now, umpires had revealed their decisions such as safe and out with hand signals. Of 1,305 calls challenged by clubs last year, 655 calls were overturned (50.2%), 221 were confirmed (16.9% ...

In The New York Sunday Mercury in 1870, Harry Wright called for a raised hand to signal an out on the bases, writing, “You know what noise there is always when a fine play is made on the bases ...

The archetypal image of a baseball umpire originated in Norman Rockwell’s 1948 painting Tough Call, which depicts three signal-callers looking skyward as rain starts to fall during a game. The ...

With new rules come new hand signals.It’s a big spring for MLB umpires. As the game invites seismic change, umpires are the ones tasked with handling a slew of new rules, from a ban on infield ...

With new rules come new hand signals.It’s a big spring for MLB umpires. As the game invites seismic change, umpires are the ones tasked with handling a slew of new rules, from a ban on infield ...