Bill Klem Quotes
To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.
Citations
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Bill Klem Plaque. Cooperstown, NY, 1953.
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William Joseph Klem, born William Joseph Klimm, known as the "Old Arbitrator" and the "father of baseball umpires", was a National League (NL) umpire in Major League Baseball from 1905 to 1941. He worked 18 World Series, which is a major league record. Klem was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953.