UP 2025 Issue 12
Fellow Blues, sad to say many of us ensconced up here in Northern Virginia, suburban Maryland and DC have not had the good fortune of working with or even knowing Dale Fitzpatrick.
UP 2025 Issue 10
Blues, if you’ve had the opportunity to work, or just talk with him, you know Michael Chmar is one intense gent. Indeed, Michael is extremely intense!
UP 2025 Issue 8
When Brennan Miller worked the 2025 season opener a few weeks back at Dodger Stadium, he was not only the youngest member of his MLB crew in Los Angeles for those three games; he was the youngest umpire in Major League Baseball….
UP 2025 Issue 5
Anthony Hemmans first came to us at MAC-NVBUA in the spring of 2013. During the months that followed in his first year, he came to realize, “They had to find out who I was.”
UP 2025 Issue 3
By the second day of 2025, Anthony Mayer had already received 15 JUCO and Division 3 college assignments for the approaching season. So early and so many games speak loud volumes of just how quickly Mayer’s star is rising in the umpire world.
UP 2025 Issue 1
Fellow umpires, when our newly elected Association President began his noble life-adventure four decades ago, he recalls “no one started with less experience than I did.” Now you might be tempted to interject that most of us began as beginners, and of course you’d be right.