After 40 years of Little League umpiring, Ron Coleman got the letter from Williamsport, Pa., he’s been waiting for last month.
Coleman, who started umpiring in his hometown of Wellsville in 1978, has worked four Little League Eastern Regionals at different levels of baseball or softball and twice worked a New York State championship tournament in Wellsville and Lockport, and also works high school games in the area. This July, Coleman plans to fly out to Livermore, Calif., with his wife, Penny, to serve in his first Little League World Series in the Intermediate League Baseball tournament. Little League Baseball and Softball announced its list of 92 volunteer umpires from regions across the globe on Jan. 12 and their assignments to seven different tournaments. Read more from the Times Herald.
2018 Intermediate League (50/70) Baseball World Series (Livermore, Calif.)
(by name – place of residence – region)
· David Byars – Plant City, Fla. – Southeast
· Ronald Coleman – Wellsville, N.Y. – East
· Samuel D. Griffith – Mission Viejo, Calif. – West
· Jim Hallonquist – Seguin, Texas – Southwest
· Jeremy Kautza – Waunakee, Wisc. – Central
· Brian Osbourne – Mannington, W.V. – Southeast
· Joe Ouellette – Brewer, Maine – East
· Paul Joseph Schneider – Carmichael, Calif. – West
· Juan Serrano-Alvarez – San Juan, Puerto Rico – Latin America
· Brian Stehr – Medicine Hat, Alberta – Canada
· Andy Stout – Montgomery, Texas – Southwest
· Fred Tempels – Winnweiler, Germany – Europe and Africa
· Jeff Wertz – Goshen, Ind. – Central
