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Doug Harvey Marquee Hall of Fame 2010

b. March 3, 1930

The game logs name him behind the plate 1,199 times, from April 13, 1962 to October 4, 1992, with no season missing in between. The count is a floor rather than a total, since it is only the games he worked at the plate.

Players called him God, which he disliked and which stuck anyway. He was known for knowing the rulebook better than the managers arguing with him and for saying so without raising his voice. He never played professionally, so the statistical record here has nothing else of him.

He appeared on five Hall of Fame ballots. The Veterans Committee for managers and umpires elected him in 2010, and he was there for it, the second umpire after Jocko Conlan to be chosen in his own lifetime. He died in 2018 at eighty-seven.

On this day & linked events

1930

Born March 3, 1930

South Gate, CA, USA

2018

Died January 13, 2018