Larry Gerlach
Larry Gerlach (1941 – ) opened up the world of umpires as a source of baseball scholarship with the publication of The Men in Blue: Conversations With Umpires, named one of SABR’s top 50 baseball books of the past 50 years in 2021. A SABR member since 1979, he served one term as a Board president, was the founder and longtime chair of the Umpires and Rules Committee, and co-editor of The SABR Book of Umpires and Umpiring. He is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Utah, where he taught from 1968 to 2013 and also wrote extensively on the American Revolution.
Related links:
- Read Steve Gietschier’s profile of Larry Gerlach in the Spring 2024 Baseball Research Journal
- Read essays from The SABR Book of Umpires and Umpiring online at SABR.org
- Larry Gerlach’s The Men in Blue was named one of SABR’s top 50 books of the past half-century
- Find more of Larry Gerlach’s articles in the SABR Research Collection