A baseball umpire has been hit with a second punishment after making an anti-Semitic remark about an umpiring administrator. Suspended for 10 days without pay for the derogatory comment, Bruce Froemming was told to stay away from the Los Angeles Dodgers’ adult baseball camp that begins Thursday in Vero Beach, Fla.
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