Tom Knight’s Diamond Reflections: Harry Wendelstedt
Recalling A Great Umpire, Great Friend
By Tom Knight
Brooklyn Baseball Historian
Bang the drum slowly for my dear friend Harry Wendelstedt, who was an outstanding National League umpire for 33 years. He died on Friday, March 9, in Daytona Beach, Fla., at age 73. He ran a school for umpires at which he taught hundreds of aspiring men in blue (many made the majors) in nearby Ormand Beach where he lived.