{"id":595382,"date":"2026-02-27T03:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/595382\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:33:59","slug":"longtime-mlb-umpire-bruce-froemming-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/595382\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime MLB umpire Bruce Froemming dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wilbur Wood, baseball, 1941-2026<\/p>\n

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Wilbur Wood, baseball, 1941-2026<\/p>\n

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Phil Goyette, hockey, 1933-206<\/p>\n

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Eddie McCreadie, soccer, 1940-2026<\/p>\n

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Dave Giusti, baseball, 1939-2026<\/p>\n

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Martin Chivers, soccer, 1945-2026<\/p>\n

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Billy Truax, football, 1943-2026<\/p>\n

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Jawann Oldham, basketball, 1957-2026<\/p>\n

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Robert Pulford, hockey, 1936-2026<\/p>\n

Longtime MLB umpire Bruce Froemming has died at the age of 86, his family confirmed to The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Froemming’s sons told The Athletic and Associated Press that Froemming fell at his home in Wisconsin on Tuesday and hit his head on the hardwood floor. He was taken to a hospital in Milwaukee, according to his family, before succumbing to a brain bleed that medical personnel were unable to stop. Froemming had been on blood thinners.<\/p>\n

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Froemming worked 5,163 MLB games, which is the third-most games by an MLB umpire, over 37 consecutive baseball seasons beginning in 1971. Among those games, he worked five World Series and was on the field for 11 no-hitters.<\/p>\n

Froemming was behind the plate for no-hitters by Milt Pappas (1972), Ed Halicki (1975), Nolan Ryan (1981) and Jos\u00e9 Jim\u00e9nez (1999).<\/p>\n

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Bruce Froemming during a 2006 game between Detroit and Cleveland.<\/p>\n

Froemming retired in 2007, when his total games worked stood second behind Bill Klem\u2019s 5,373. Both Froemming and Klem were surpassed by Joe West<\/a>, who worked 5,460 games before he retired in 2021.<\/p>\n

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Following his retirement, Froemming served as a special assistant to the league\u2019s vice president on umpiring.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Bruce Froemming dies at 86: Umpire worked MLB games for 37 seasons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 \/ 8 Sports figures we lost in 2026 Wilbur Wood, baseball, 1941-2026 1 \/ 8 Sports figures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,77692,11559,77690,77691,27630,77693,38776,843,4,18917,12784],"class_list":["post-595382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-bill-klem","tag-bruce-froemming","tag-ed-halicki","tag-froemming","tag-joey-votto","tag-jose-jimenez","tag-milt-pappas","tag-milwaukee","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-ryan","tag-the-athletic"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116140500325614539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}