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• n  an official at a baseball game

• The highest percentage of strikes were called when both the home-plate umpire and pitcher were white, and the lowest percentage were called between a white ump and a black pitcher.
• A man walking toward the radar sounds like "ump-ump-ump,"each "ump" being Tipsy's reaction to the relatively fast movement of his legs as he takes a step.
• The ump is the successor to the Rally for the Republic, the party President Jacques Chirac founded in 1976 to support his presidential ambitions.

• umpire

News & Articles

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• Rain forces cancellation of Peoria Speedway Hell Tour event
  The UMP Hell Tour event, scheduled for Monday night at Peoria Speedway, has been canceled due to the heavy rains that hit the area in the past 24 hours.
  June 24, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star
• Phillies' bullpen situation getting messier by the day
  Revere says ump's call in the fifth inning was "terrible." PHILADELPHIA — There's no easy way to say this: the Phillies bullpen is in trouble, more trouble than it's already been in.        
  June 24, 2013 - The Morning Call
• Mainstream opposition holds off far right in key French by-election
  France's main centre-right UMP party on Sunday won a by-election that had been seen as a test of a recent revival in the fortunes of the far-right Front National (FN), officials said.
  June 23, 2013 - Fox News

Quotes

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• Clint Hurdle in Sun-Sentinel.com
  As I've said before, tradition is a wonderful thing, but it can also be an ump killer,Colorado manager Clint Hurdle said before the Rockies played at the Chicago White Sox. "We're putting these umps in a very difficult position making a...
• Matt Holliday in USA Today
  The ump said I was safe,Holliday said. "I don't remember. But I hit my chin pretty good."
• Jim Leyland in ESPN
  I'm really upset that it ended the way it did, having Brandon get hit by a pitch, because that totally , it's changes that game,Leyland said. "I can understand how the ump didn't see the pitch hit him, but to say video was inconclusive...