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  Jocko Conlan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conlan began his major league career in 1934 as an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox.
Conlan was known for several trademarks: Instead of a regular dress tie like most umpires of the day wore, Conlan wore a natty bow tie for his career.
Conlan was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Committee on Baseball Veterans in 1974.
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 Jocko Conlan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John Bertrand "Jocko" Conlan (December 6, 1899 - April 16, 1989) was a player, and more famously an (An official at a baseball game) umpire, in (additional info and facts about Major League Baseball) Major League Baseball.
Conlan began his major league career in (additional info and facts about 1934) 1934 as an outfielder for the (additional info and facts about Chicago White Sox) Chicago White Sox.
Conlan was elected to the (additional info and facts about Baseball Hall of Fame) Baseball Hall of Fame by the (additional info and facts about Committee on Baseball Veterans) Committee on Baseball Veterans in (additional info and facts about 1974) 1974.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/jocko_conlan.htm   (285 words)

  
 Jocko Conlan Obituary
John (Jocko) Conlan, a National League umpire for 24 years and a member of baseball's Hall of Fame, died today.
Conlan, known as one of the feistier umpires of his day, was just 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighed 160 pounds.
Conlan, was was born in Chicago, umpired in five World Series and six All-Star Games before retiring after the 1964 season.
www.baseball-almanac.com /deaths/jocko_conlan_obituary.shtml   (327 words)

  
 Major League Baseball : Official Info : Umpires: Feature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Birthplace: Chicago, IL Died: 4/1/89, Scottsdale, AZ Conlan became a professional umpire by accident.
Conlan joined the National League in 1941 and retired in 1964.
Died: 4/28/61, Natick, MA Connolly, one of the first two umpires to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame, originally worked in the National League from 1898-1900, before moving over to the American League in 1901.
www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/official_info/umpires/feature.jsp?feature=hall_of_fame   (465 words)

  
 Jocko Conlan - TheBestLinks.com - April 16, Arizona, Baseball Hall of Fame, Baltimore Orioles, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jocko Conlan - TheBestLinks.com - April 16, Arizona, Baseball Hall of Fame, Baltimore Orioles,...
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Conlan umpired in the National League from 1941 to 1964, officiating in five World Series (1945, '50, '54, '57 and '61) and six All-Star games (1943, '47, '50, '53, '58 and '62).
www.thebestlinks.com /Jocko_Conlan.html   (232 words)

  
 Jocko Conlan | BaseballLibrary.com
Conlan had a brief career as an AL outfielder but was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1974 as an umpire.
When regular AL umpire Red Ormsby was overcome by heat during a 1935 Browns-White Sox game, Conlan, a Chicago reserve, filled in.
Conlan makes his call after Braves LF Jeff Heath "loses" the ball in the Wrigley vines, though it is really by his feet.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Conlan_Jocko.stm   (869 words)

  
 The Conlon Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jocko Conlan had a successful career as a center fielder in the high minors.
During a July 1935 doubleheader in steamy St. Louis, one of the umpires was overcome by the heat.
Conlan demanded respect from players and managers, and he got it.
www.sportingnews.com /archives/conlon/umpires/photo4.html   (153 words)

  
 The Dugout Review of Jocko on Baseball Almanac
John B. "Jocko" Conlan (1899-1989) was the third umpire to be selected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the first to gain that honor purely on the basis of his abilities-and not as an "institution" as the first two had been-the early umpires Bill Klem and Tommy Connelly.
Conlan worked the bases and on a close play called one of his teammates out at third.
Jocko Conlan was the only umpire to work in each of the first four National League pennant playoffs.
www.baseball-almanac.com /dugout0j.shtml   (923 words)

  
 Jocko; Author: Conlan, Jocko; Author: With Creamer, Robert W.; Paperback
Jocko Conlan was an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox when, one afternoon in 1936, he became an umpire.
Through the skillful writing of Robert Creamer, the ebullient Jocko makes his many years of umpiring so real that the reader can smell the peanuts and hear the swat of the ball.
Jocko is packed with funny stories about famous players and the beleaguered umpire's lot.
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 Jocko Conlan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Jocko Conlan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jocko Conlan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Jocko Conlan.
During a game against the St. Louis Browns, umpire Red Ormsby fell ill due to the heat and Conlan was asked to fill in.
The orginal Jocko Conlan article can be editet
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Jocko-Conlan.html   (291 words)

  
 Jocko Conlan | National Baseball Hall of Fame
Conlan, an outfielder with the Chisox, was asked to fill in.
Conlan won the respect of players and managers alike with his hustle, accuracy and fairness.
Tell someone about Jocko Conlan by sending a free Hall of Fame Digital Postcard.
www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/conlan_jocko.htm   (197 words)

  
 Bruce Froemming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After a brief semi-pro playing career, Froemming became the youngest umpire in professional baseball in 1958 at age 18, working his way up through the minor leagues to the Pacific Coast League before joining the NL staff in April 1971.
While in the minor leagues, his work had caught the attention of skilled observers such as Hall of Famer Jocko Conlan.
Froemming became one of the NL's six crew chiefs in 1988.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruce_Froemming   (631 words)

  
 Books : Jocko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jocko Conlan was a man behind the mask in control of the great game.
I've related myself with a person's will without the GOD given gift to be a player but with the determination to find a place in the game.
He found his way into the game through his determination and strength to be part of it.
www.prep4usmle.com /0803263813/Jocko.htm   (188 words)

  
 Walter O'Malley : Official Website : This Month in Walter O'Malley History
The press corps from New York, Brooklyn and Miami, as well as umpire Jocko Conlan were among the invited guests.
John Smith, stockholder in the Dodgers, was present, and two National League umpires, Larry Goetz and Jocko Conlan, joined in the fun.
Conlan, one of the highest Irish tenors around set one of the high spots of the evening when he sang a love song to Kay O’Malley, while Greg Mulleavy, a normally quiet and soft spoken fellow who is a scout, wielded a shillelagh and directed proceedings with a constant-stream of brogue-tinged orders.”
www.walteromalley.com /thisday_03_17.php   (800 words)

  
 Interesting crop of Hall of Famers who served in World War I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The key phrase in that sentence is "no LIVING member." A Hall of Fame release earlier this year listed 24 of its members as having served in WWI.
As was customary in those days, one player from each team was pressed into service to fill the breach, and Conlan was Chicago's contribution.
Conlan, knowing that his career as a player hung by a thread, seized on umpiring as a way to remain in baseball.
www.thedailystar.com /sports/2002/11/09/spham.html   (914 words)

  
 Alibris: Conlan
Conlan focuses on why Republicans placed so much emphasis on reform; the policies and politics of Nixon's "New Federalism," and...
These are the dangers that Kathy Conlan faces when she goes to work.
With her family in tow, Samantha leave the war-torn South to take a job as a bookkeeper in Abilene.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Conlan   (672 words)

  
 Jocko
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DJ 'Jocko' Henderson dies at 82 by Leon Taylor Daily News Staff Writer Douglas "Jocko" Henderson, a slick-haired, silver-throated, legendary pioneer in Philadelphia and New York radio, died Saturday...
Admiral "Jocko" Clark and Bob Hope Rear Admiral J. "Jocko" Clark (part Cherokee Indian) and staff were allowed 30-days leave by Admiral Nimitz, and departed Pearl Harbor for the West Coast on...
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 Rev. Charles McClellan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Hall of Fame inductee was not a great slugger or pitcher but he held the outcome of every game in his hand.
His name was John "Jocko" Conlan and he was baseball's premier umpire for three decades.
In his book, "Jocko", Conlan relays a tale that while in a youth league he jeopardized the championship victory for the All Saints team by telling an umpire what he thought of him.
saint-dennis.org /history/sdh34.asp   (589 words)

  
 WUA - Ken Burkhart: Last of His Class   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Burkhart recalls that his first major league crew consisted of the legendary Jocko Conlan, later elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and Augie Guglielmo.
They were great to me.” Burkhart said that Conlan gave him the best single piece of advice, “Jocko told me, ‘When they give you a hard time, just run ‘em out of the ballgame.’ So that is what I did.”
In fact, Burkhart took Conlan’s advice so seriously that he applied it to one of baseball’s most famous stars.
www.worldumpires.com /features/060104Burkhart.htm   (1045 words)

  
 Jocko - University of Nebraska Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
[Jocko has an] almost primitive zeal for baseball and conveys it in colorful anecdotes.”—New York Times Book Review.
“[Jocko] is by turn salty, nostalgic, jocular, egotistical, shrewd, and autocratic—and always Irish—a winning combination for an umpire.
Jocko’s style, even filtered through Robert Creamer’s ghost writing, reveals a gifted and voluble raconteur.
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu /bookinfo/3341.html   (269 words)

  
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May 27: With the score tied 1-1 and Hal Schumacher on the mound, umpire Jocko Conlan calls time.
The crowd then listens for 45 minutes while President Roosevelt's radio message about the war in Europe is heard on the Polo Grounds loudspeakers.
August 19: Pirates manager Frankie Frisch is ejected by Jocko Conlan from the second game of a doubleheader when he appears on the field with an umbrella to protest the playing conditions at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field.
www.daveyball.com /40s.asp   (1913 words)

  
 The New York Times > Books > Baseball Is a Funny Game
The new Rickey five-year plan, I imagine, is dedicated to supplying New Yorkers with one more home club whose field they can shun while staying at home to watch games on television.
Garagiola's stories concerns himself, incidentally, though it is Danny Murtaugh who tells it as an experience he had with Jocko Conlan, the umpire:
So now I stop and I say to Conlan, 'Jocko, just look around the infield.
www.nytimes.com /ref/books/19GARAGIOLA.html   (875 words)

  
 Jocko
The stories depict the golden age of the time we considered the game our national pastime.
Comment: Anyone who loves baseball will enjoy the stories Jocko relates in this book.
Comment: As a young amateur umpire in 1966, I had bought and read this book by former National League Umpire, Jock Conlan.
www.baseball-fanatics.com /books/product.php/0803263813   (231 words)

  
 toolhost.com >> Jocko Conlan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Stars and Stripes photo of the day
Frankfurt, Germany, February 7, 1952: Newly arrived at Rhein-Main, John "Jocko" Conlan, left, and Art Gore use the sign language of their profession to signal that they had a "safe!" flight from the U.S. to Germany.
Conlan's umpiring career started in 1938 when, as an outfielder for the White Sox, he was asked to fill in after an umpire took ill during a game.
He stayed with it for 24 years, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1974.
www.stripes.com /photoday/053105photoday.html   (856 words)

  
 Jocko Products   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 JOCKO CONLAN-UMPIRE/HOF AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED BASEBALL-PSA and related   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
THIS IS AN AUTOGRAPHED BASEBALL BY JOCKO CONLAN-UMPIRE OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE.
JOCKO UMPIRED 6 WORLD SERIES AND 6 ALL-STAR GAMES IN A 24 YEAR HALL OF FAME CAREER FROM 1941 TO 1965...
ALSO PLAYED FOR THE WHITE SOX IN 1934 and 1935...
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 Jocko Conlan Bibliography | BaseballLibrary.com
The Baseball Index contains the following references for further reading material on Jocko Conlan (OF 1934-35 White Sox):
Conlan to Have Charge of Global League Umps by n
From Spikes To a Blue Suit; Part 2: An Umpire's Story by Conlan, Jocko and Robert Creamer
baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/sabr/tbi/C/Conlan_Jocko.tbi.stm   (831 words)

  
 Warren Spahn Hall Famer Autographed Ball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 CARD CORNER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Included are Jim Honochick (of TV-commercial fame) and Hall of Famers Cal Hubbard and Jocko Conlan.
The Bowman umps enjoy more popularity today than they did at the time of issue; the demise of the Bowman Company, in combination with hobbyist apathy, limited the umpires to the one-year card appearance.
A 1955 Bowman card, in prime condition, of Hall of Fame umpire Jocko
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950423/04230180.htm   (293 words)

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