want to discuss some other "blown" calls, calls that caused millions of dollars to change hands. All those calls were in professional championship series. Those umpires will never live down their mistakes. Like them, the Little League umpire will learn to live with his.

Brainlauch v Blauchhead

The subhead refers, of course, to how two New York newspapers (the Post and the Daily News) greeted Chuck Knoblauch's live-ball argument with the home plate umpire in the 1998 League Championship Series between the Yankees and the Cleveland Indians.

Let's relive the entire play before we attack either the umpire or player.

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