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.

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 ...