Who was the first man elected to the baseball Hall of Fame for his work as an umpire?

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There are currently nine umpires in the Hall of Fame. Tom Connolly and Bill Klem were both inducted in 1953. "In chronological order they are: 1. Tom Connolly & Bill Klem (1953), 3. Billy Evans (1973), 4. Jocko Conlan (1974), 5. Cal Hubbard (1976), 6. Al Barlick (1989), 7. Bill McGowan (1992), 8. Nestor Chylak (1999) and 9. Doug Harvey (2010)." http://www.baseball-almanac.com/umpires/umpiresinhof.shtml Nov 25 12, 6:58 AM

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The first two umpires elected to the Hall of Fame were Tom Connolly and Bill Klem, who were both inducted in 1953. Klem umpired in the National League from 1905-41, bringing dignity and respect to the position. Connolly spent most of his career in the American League - the Manchester, England, native umpired in the first World Series in 1903. Twenty years after Connolly and Klem were elected to the Hall of Fame, Billy Evans was enshrined in 1973 - a salute to an arbiter who was only 22 years old when he joined the AL umpiring staff in 106. Jocko Conlan followed in 1974, capping a 24-year NL career from 1941-64 that actually began in the AL in 1935 when the White Sox outfielder was asked to fill in during a game against the Browns. Conlan is one of just 31 big league umpires who also played Major League Baseball - the most recent being Bill Kunkel, who pitched for the A's and Yankees from 1961-63 before serving as an AL umpire from 1968-84. Cal Hubbard was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1976 after a 16-year career in the AL from 1936-51. Hubbard, who was also a fine football player, remains the only man enshrined in both the Baseball and Football Halls of Fame. Al Barlick was an NL umpire for 27 years before being elected to the Hall of Fame in 1989, and Bill McGowan - who was on the crew that worked the first All-Star Game in 1933 - was elected in 1992. In 1999, Nestor Chylak became the eighth umpire elected to the Hall of Fame following a 25-year AL career that saw him work five World Series. Harvey, the game's pre-eminent umpire during the 1970s and 80s, worked 4,673 games over a 31-year career in the NL. http://baseballhall.org/news/history/right-call Nov 25 12, 8:52 AM