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Cubs' first game with 2 umpires, 1888 By JohnW53 on Apr 19, 2021, 6:43am CDT + When 5,000 spectators gathered at Chicago's West Side Park on Tuesday, July 17, 1888, they saw something they never had seen before: 2 umpires on the field at the same time. The 4-umpire "crew" that we take for granted today did not become standard for all regular-season games until 1953. Even a second umpire was not mandated until 1911, although one often was assigned for important game between contending teams. In the 1870s and 1880s, the lone umpire stood behind the pitcher's box, which was on flat g...

Letters to the Editor Monday, April 5 | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Residents want reasons for decision “You can’t fight city hall,” so the saying goes, and it’s true. My neighbors and I have been battling the town of Ballston for over a year concerning a wide discrepancy in the fees the town charged residents to connect to the same public water supply. When the water line was extended in 2004 to serve the new town hall on Charlton Road, homeowners along the route (known as Extension 14) were invited to hook up for a fee of $9,100, with an explicit promise that the fee would never go u...