Don Denkinger was relaxing with friends after a round of golf when a cell phone rang. His buddy answered, talked for a moment and then turned to the former umpire. "He told me, 'Hey, my brother says a guy just made a call probably worse than yours,'" Denkinger said Thursday. No matter what, Denkinger can never get far from a split-second decision he made 25 years ago. Many fans still blame him for robbing them of the 1985 championship. It's because of his missed call a quarter-century ago that he can completely sympathize with umpire Jim Joyce's mistake Wednesday night that cost Detroit's Armando Galarraga a perfect game. "A bad call — it's synonymous with my name," Denkinger told...
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