Ben May doesn't remember much about when he was informed that he was being hired to the fulltime major league umpire staff on Jan. 3. Yeah, right. All he remembers is that it was 5:51 p.m. that ...

Beyond that? He umpired high school baseball in Tucson from 1948 to 1984 and spent his summers working American Legion games both as an umpire and a coach. “Bud was a treasure, an absolute ...