When Mike Corwin first crouched down behind home plate to call balls and strikes, he was wearing a starched white shirt and black tie. It was standard garb for baseball umpires at the time.

That was 1973 — 50 years and many thousands of baseball games ago. Corwin was 18 years old, a college freshman, and had recently bumped up against the limit of his athletic skills.

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