[DOC] [TLE] Amazon.com: The Men in Blue: Conversations with Umpires ... [PAR] Editorial Reviews. Review. "Despite their importance, umpires are the invisible 
men of baseball ... They Called Me God: The Best Umpire Who Ever Lived .... at 
the rigid honesty of some of the complaints about specific men in baseball, 
whether they be players, managers, owners, and sometimes even other umpires. [DOC] [TLE] As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires by Bruce ... [PAR] Mar 16, 2010 ... Available in 3 colors. ..... Like everything else in umpiring, or at least in umpire 
instruction, the .... they had been aware for a decade or more that some players 
were ... "The Belligerent Men in Blue," which appeared in the Sporting News. ... 
Umpire nation also has its own language, or at least a patois, and it... [DOC] [TLE] America at the Bat > Publications > National Affairs [PAR] Meanwhile, the percentage of white players has remained fairly level since the ... 
era of the Negro Leagues, play was segregated, but audiences crossed the color 
line. ... with baseball serving as the common language that bridged the 
generation gap. .... Of course, if the kids keep at it, they eventually need to 
acquire some... [DOC] [TLE] Observations of Umpires at Work | Society for American Baseball ... [PAR] I get a big kick out of watching the umpires, anticipating what they are going ... 
Unlike the players, the four umpires remain on the field between turns at bat
they ... Like hitting, calling balls and strikes requires a high level of concentration; 
..... baseball media since the first pitch was called by an umpire some 150 years 
ago. [DOC] [TLE] Three Blind Mice: Why it's baseball umpires' least favorite song. [PAR] Sep 18, 2012 ... Words like scrapte and licke made it seem more sinister, as did the ... Last month, 
the minor league umpire ejected a Daytona Cubs intern after ... As you can hear 
in the video below, Seneca points to the sky and shouts You're gone! .... of music
, they do grant umpires the authority to order a player, coach,... [DOC] [TLE] BBC - Test Match Special: Players are the problem - not umpires [PAR] Jan 8, 2008 ... Umpires will always make mistakes  just as the players do (although ..... Like 
you said, this Australian team is one of the greats (in cricketing terms) but .... The 
abuse they give out to some cricketers is simply incredible and then ...... The 
second test match has shown how the once called gentlemen's game... [DOC] [TLE] Common Errors in English Usage by Paul Brians - Washington State ... [PAR] Speakers of other languages tend to make some specific errors that are 
uncommon ..... Conservatives object to phrases like "you can access your 
account online. ...... Because the top of it leans forward, it is sometimes called a "
forward slash. ...... The result is that many people tend to guess when they hear 
this sound, but... [DOC] [TLE] The Unnatural - 6X20 - Inside|The|X [PAR] (The pitcher makes some weird eye and tongue movements which may or may 
not ... The UMPIRE, BATTER, and CATCHER all duck as the ball hits and gets ... (
The batter goes to first base as another player digs the ball out of the cactus.) .... 
It's like the numbers talk to me, they comfort me. ..... (mumbles unknown language
). [DOC] [TLE] Idioms and Expressions - Pima County Fair [PAR] land, as a legal editor and language consultant, with one of the Big Four ... 
frequently) I would sit at my desk, (like some old character out of a Charles 
Dickens' ... converse in a colloquial style, because they'd never had a chance to 
hear ... different wayssometimes sensibly and sometimes arbitrarily
sometimes ignorantly. [DOC] [TLE] Baseball's Oral History: The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter [PAR] Jun 17, 2010 ... Hear Sam Crawford, Hans Lobert, and Jimmy Austin from Glory of Their ... from 
other countries, in some

Question: Umpires are sometimes called "men in" this color, like some of the language they hear from players
Answer: blue