Umpires need masks for protection from serious injury. They stand behind home plate while pitchers try to throw baseballs and softballs past batters. High-speed pitches can cause severe injury to ...

Earlier this week, MLB umpire Chad Fairchild took a 95-mile-per-hour sinker from Rockies pitcher Jeremy Guthrie to the center of his protective face mask, suffering a concussion that resulted in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about baseball with a focus on the Cubs and White Sox. Catchers and umpires call it the “knockout punch”—a foul ...

That, my friends, is the only way to make this look more awesome: UmpCam is an official collaboration with RF Wireless that uses a custom POV camera fitted for the umpire mask. It is similar to ...