RIP Bruce Froemming

[HanSenSE]

https://www.local10.com/sports/2026/02/26/bruce-froemming-record-setting-major-league-umpire-dies-at-age-86/

Major league ump for 37 seasons, or 5,163 games.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Yes, I remember him in my old ball-watching days. RIP.

Jeez, fell and hit his head and he had a brain bleed that they couldn't stop because he was on blood thinners.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Threw out Billy Martin in the ‘76 World Series.



I’ll always remember him as the home plate umpire when Varitek and A-Rod went at it.

 

[ChrisLong]

I got to know him quite well in the early '80s because he stayed in Vero Beach and, thus, we hit the same bars. He reffed college basketball, too. It was not difficult to talk him into acting out his favorite basketball call -- basket counts, charging foul after the shot, we're going the other way -- in slow motion.
Hell, you could never get Dutch Rennert to belt out a "STEEEEE-RIKE" in a bar. But Bruce loved to be the center of attention. RIP, Bruce.

 

[Della9250]

He wasn't on the Era Committee ballot three years ago -- Ed Montague and Joe West were -- and the rotation is managers, execs and umps this year. I could see him getting a chance since those two got less than five and all the votes are going to go to Bochy and Baker anyway

 

[maumann2]

Read that he was on the field for 11 no-hitters. Talk about a guy who couldn't swing the bat. RIP, Bruce.