Kill the Umpire [SEP] director
Kill the Umpire
Kill the Umpire is a 1950 baseball comedy film starring William Bendix and Una Merkel, directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Frank Tashlin.
Bendix two years earlier had portrayed baseball player Babe Ruth in the biographical film "The Babe Ruth Story". One of the ballplayers in this picture is played by Jeff Richards, billed as Richard Taylor, a minor-league ballplayer before becoming an actor.
Plot.
Bill Johnson is a former baseball player whose fanatical devotion to the game has cost him
the Fort Wayne players, described as "turbulent and rowdy" by the "Kendallville Standard", argued with the umpire after the third inning. In the opinion of the Kendallville newspaper, the umpire then "favored the Fort Wayne Club in every instance, and giving a number of most outrageous and unjust decisions." The Fort Wayne newspaper refers to Kendallville bragging after a victory against the Kekiongas earlier in the year.
On 10 Sep 1867, the Fort Wayne Daily Gazette published a letter from "a member of the