Lest We Forget: Bruce Froemming

March 5, 2026

From The New York Times by Richard Sandomir:

Bruce Froemming, an authoritative, sometimes brusque but widely respected umpire who called the third-most games in Major League Baseball history, including four no-hitters from behind home plate, died on Feb. 25 in Milwaukee. He was 86.

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Unfortunately, Froemming — who umped more than 5,100 games over 37 (!) seasons — did not publish a book. Too bad. I bet he had a lot of interesting stories to tell.

For lack of more “official” information, here’s his entry from Wikipedia and Baseball-Reference.com.

Froemming was born in Milwaukee. Here’s his obit from his hometown Journal-Sentinel.

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