One of the most colorful was Cecelia Summers' dad, Bill Summers of Upton, one of the best umpires ever to wear blue. It's much easier to make the major leagues as a player than as an umpire.

"Bill had some very talented basketball teams," said Dargan. "That 1963 team was a really good team." Dargan eventually became the varsity baseball coach at North, working under Summers.

Summers' father was a major league baseball umpire. Bill Summers also officiated professionally in the National Football League. Each Friday during the football season, ...

Yogi Berra always asserted that Jackie Robinson was out at home plate. That's not what umpire Bill Summers said when Robinson swiped home in the eighth inning of Game 1 of the 1955 World Series ...

Detroit-born Bill Summers is a Billboard Music Award winner and multi-Grammy Award nominee who has grown roots in New Orleans. In New Orleans, he is Baba Bill. He is an ...

Bill Miller will umpire at home plate in Tuesday night's All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. This will be Miller's second All-Star Game after he also worked right field in 2007.

May 17—Bill Summers was one-of-a-kind. A quiet leader, who led with a servant's heart, the 87-year-old passed away Tuesday afternoon. Summers graduated from Washington High School in 1955 and ...

Bill Summers has traced the rhythmic links of African, Caribbean and American music for many years. He draws on years spent with Herbie Hancock and his own group to discuss rhythms and beats.

In 1965, with a shiny, gold streamliner they'd built in a shed — and four Hemi V8s — brothers Bill and Bob "Butch" Summers ended the longstanding British rule over the wheel-driven land-speed ...