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Co-Authors Jim Joyce, Armando Galarraga in Perfect Mess With Book Deal

The most enduring baseball story of 2010 might just be Jim Joyce's blown call that cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game and how the two men handled it. But now we must say this: Joyce should never again umpire one of Galarraga's games. Not because of the blown call, per se. But because Galarraga and Joyce are now...

Armando Galarraga, Jim Joyce Working on Book Project Together

Has a colossal screw-up ever worked out better for two people than Jim Joyce's inability to tell the difference between being safe and out has worked out for Joyce and Armando Galarraga? They were both lavished with praise throughout the rest of the 2010 season following the June 2 Imperfect Game for the way they handled...

Armando Galarraga, Jim Joyce Achieve Much More After Near-Perfect Game

All this week, the FanHouse staff will look back at the most significant baseball storylines of 2010. Armando Galarraga was better than perfect. With apologies to Dallas Braden and Roy Halladay and the 18 pitchers before them who had managed to pitch a perfect game in the major leagues, none of them emerged from his day...

Jim Joyce, Armando Galarraga Real Sportsmen of the Year

When word came that New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was to be honored as Sports Illustrated's 2010 Sportsman of the Year, it was tough to argue. Each December, the magazine recognizes an athlete or team whose performance "most embodies the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement." Anyone would be crazy to make...

Armando Galarraga, Jim Joyce: One Bad Call, the Class Act of 2010

Winning is fleeting, here one minute, gone the next. The path to legend is filled with even more pratfalls, some easily evident, some happenstance. Armando Galarraga learned all this pitching one June game for the Detroit Tigers this season. Galarraga saw a split-second call change what would have been an historic moment...

Jim Joyce News From the Web

05/29/12 Hammond on Baseball's Bad Calls Source: FOX - KTTV 2 - Detroit MI Let me start by saying THANK YOU, Jim Leyland.
05/23/12 I wish this was Source: Fredericksburg.com - Fredericksburg VA These were among the suggestions readers offered in an informal poll on our fredericksburg.com blog for what they'd like to see open in six now-vacant buildings in the Fredericksburg area.
05/06/12 Red Sox bullpen shines in the storm Source: Telegram & Gazette - Worcester MA BOSTON Don't blame the bullpen, at least not for this skid.

Background on Jim Joyce

James A. "Jim" Joyce III (born October 3, 1955) is a Major League Baseball umpire who has worked in the American League (AL) from 1987 to 1999 and throughout both major leagues since 2000. He wears uniform number 66 (he wore uniform number 6 while in the American League).

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