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Article: Major League Umpires Withdraw Resignations
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 28, 1999
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Baseball's umpires admitted defeat yesterday by announcing they
were withdrawing their letters of resignation. However, about one-
third of 68 major league umpires probably will lose their jobs since
baseball has accepted some of the resignations and hired 25
replacements from the minor leagues.
In all, 42 umpires announced they were withdrawing their
resignations. Fourteen had already rescinded their resignations, and
12 others never resigned to begin with.
Umpires union chief Richie Phillips announced the decision, less
than two weeks after he orchestrated the mass resignations as a
preemptive move in a coming battle with baseball over a new
collective bargaining agreement. Because their ...