Bruce Froemming
Bruce Froemming
Bruce Neal Froemmingis Major League Baseball Special Assistant to the Vice President on Umpiring, after having served as an umpire in Major League Baseball. He is the longest-tenured umpire in major league history in terms of the number of full seasons umpired, finishing his 37th season in 2007. He first umpired in the National League in 1971, and from 2000 to 2007 worked throughout both major leagues. Early in the 2007 season, Froemming tied Bill Klem for the most seasons...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth28 September 1939
CountryUnited States of America
I just love walking to home plate every night, ... We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.
It was like pulling teeth, but you get games like that,
I can see the sun okay, and that's 93 million miles away.
The guy goes into surgery on a Monday, and he can't think it's just another day, because it's a lot more important than that to the guy he's operating on, ... That's the way I feel going to the ballpark. I've never felt, in 35 years, that I could relax and do this job.
We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.