Ken Kaiser (1945–2017)

Kenneth John Kaiser Jr. was born in Rochester, New York on July 26, 1945. He attended Al Somers's umpiring school. He got a job in the Florida Rookie League, which began his 13 years working in the minor leagues. He moved up to the American League in 1977. He lost his job in 1999 when he and more mostrar más than 50 other umpires submitted letters of resignation as part of a strategy conceived by their union leader to force Major League Baseball to negotiate a better labor agreement. His was one of the 22 resignations accepted. His autobiography, Planet of the Umps: A Baseball Life from Behind the Plate written with David Fisher, was published in 2003. He died from congestive heart failure on August 8, 2017 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos