The last time a professional baseball season unfolded without an Ed Montague was 1921, the year before a 16-year-old boy joined his hometown San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League.

Ed Montague served as a major-league umpire for 35 seasons. He wore blue for 4,369 games, which ranks eighth all-time. He’s checked countless baseballs for scuff marks and gloves for sandpaper.

Ed Montague is officially removed from the Yankees’ Christmas card list. The veteran umpire yesterday was in the middle of a second eighth-inning controversy in four days at the Stadium, call… ...

But Ed Montague, who played 220 games for the Cleveland Indians between 1928-32, got his revenge on the playing field. It’s one of the few old-time baseball stories the father told his son.

Dodgers third base coach Larry Bowa said the three-game suspension he was handed by the commissioner's office Wednesday was "more ludicrous" than the new rule that he protested by screaming in the ...

BOSTON -- Ed Montague, known for his calm demeanor and consistent strike zone, will serve as the crew chief for the World Series. It is the fourth time he's drawn the umpiring assignment.

Montague’s father dropped out of high school at age 16 to sign with the San Francisco Seals after losing his own father, Ed Montague Sr., to the San Francisco flu epidemic.

Joe West and Ed Montague, two umpires who were on the field for some of the most important moments in Red Sox history, are on the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Era ballot this year.

Brian Jordan, standing along the first base line, saw one thing. "It hit off the pole," he said. Marlon Byrd, leaping to catch the ball struck with Jordan's bat, saw another. "I saw it go left of ...