Clipping:An umpire hung in effigy

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Date Sunday, July 15, 1883
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Umpire Burnham found an effigy of himself hanging by a rope in the club house when he went to umpire Saturday's game in Chicago. It bore the legend: “Burnham—Cleveland, 3; Chicago, 2.” He cut it down and the Chicago papers say he was outrageously unfair in his decisions in the game and virtually gave it to the opposing side.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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