Umpiring legend Bruce Froemming, lifelong Milwaukeean, dies at 86
via cbs58.com
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In 1958, an 18-year-old Bruce Froemming hopped off a Greyhound bus from Milwaukee and found himself at a minor-league park in Waterloo, Iowa, wearing an umpire’s coat he bought for $20. The alumnus of Milwaukee Custer High School was getting started on a half-century of work that would place him on the same field as […]