Bucky Dent connecting for a three-run, seventh-inning home run off the Red Sox’ Mike Torrez that all but clinched a division title for the Yankees in a one-game regular-season playoff at Fenway Park. Dent had only four other homers all year. (AP Photo)
Generally we don’t know the names of most baseball umpires, which is as it should be. I think the best baseball umpires are the ones that fade into the background and let the game be the centerpiece.
Steve Palermo, from Worcester, MA, was one of the good ones and was popular with almost everyone.
But he may have made one really bad call.
Check out Joe Posnanski’s column, written yesterday when it was announced that Palermo died at the age of 67.
Let me know if you think Palermo made the right or the wrong call.
See: Steve Palermo’s Love of Baseball, by Joe Posnanski
Also, in case you don’t know much about it, or need a refresher, check out the NYTimes article about the game and the disaster that struck the Red Sox that day: Bucky Dent’s Improbable Clout b
