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2 unusual facts about Bill McKinley


Bill McKinley

With Bob Gibson on the mound for the St. Louis Cardinals in the sixth inning of the second game in the 1964 World Series, McKinley ruled that a Gibson pitch hit Joe Pepitone of the New York Yankees.

In 1960, two men from Washington, DC attempted to extort money from McKinley and fellow umpire Ed Runge using a photo of the two umpires with two women in a motel room.



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