After Game 3 of the 2013 World Series ended with an obstruction call, I knew I needed a ball about it. \u00a0I wrote a heartfelt letter about how I used Jim Joyce’s actions a few years ago on\u00a0how he admitted a mistake and handled it with class\u00a0to teach Caden the right way to react to a mistake and sent it to him with a request to write his memory of the call on the ball. \u00a0Today I received the ball and my donation back to give to his current favorite charity (my son’s piggy bank) and a real nice note. \u00a0The note actually means more to me than the baseball. \u00a0On the baseball he signed it and wrote the following quote:
\n“May the hand of a friend always be near.”
\nHe was my favorite umpire before this and his actions solidified his standing in my eyes. Thanks Mr Joyce!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After Game 3 of the 2013 World Series ended with an obstruction call, I knew I needed a ball about it. \u00a0I wrote a heartfelt letter about how I used Jim Joyce’s actions a few years ago on\u00a0how he admitted a mistake and handled it with class\u00a0to teach Caden the right way to react to … Continue reading “My Favorite Umpire”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseballs","category-ttm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}