ST. LOUIS (AP) Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina and most everyone else at Busch Stadium laughed at the bizarre sight - a ball somehow stuck to his chest protector , in plain view of everybody ...

Jerry Neudecker, the last major-league umpire to wear an outside “balloon” chest protector, has died of cancer at 66. Neudecker, a native of Marine, Ill., died Saturday. He was an American ...