Rounders: A History of Baseball in America

Meet the Only Umpire Banned from Baseball: Dick Higham

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A century before Pete Rose and the Black Sox, one man made history for all the wrong reasons.

Dick Higham—a former player turned respected umpire—was banned from baseball in 1882 over a supposed gambling scheme. But was the evidence legit? Or was he a scapegoat in baseball’s early war on corruption?


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