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Umpires Crawford, Reilly and Meriwether retire

The Columbian
Published: February 23, 2011, 12:00am

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball says Jerry Crawford, Mike Reilly and Chuck Meriwether are retiring, the second straight year a significant number of veteran umpires are leaving work.

Crawford, head of the former umpires’ union, joined the major league staff in 1977 and had been the senior umpire since the Ed Montague retired last year after 34 seasons. Crawford worked the World Series in 1988, 1992, 1998, 2000 and 2002.

Reed had been on the major league staff since 1983 and Meriwether since 1993. Meriwether was on disability and missed last season.

In 2010, Randy Marsh, Rick Reed and Charlie Reliford retired in addition to Montague.

MLB said Wednesday that Scott Barry and Brian Knight have been hired as additions to the big league umpire staff. They follow the hirings last year of Rob Drake, Chad Fairchild, James Hoye and Adrian Johnson.

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