I've Heard of Blind Umpires...

...but not this.

Love of the game means many things to many people, but more to Max McLeary than just about anybody else. A man who clings to the lowest rung of pro baseball as an umpire for 35 years, logging six nights a week and 45,000 miles a year crisscrossing the Midwest to lay down the law, can't be doing it for the money -- $125 per game, plus expenses. It has to be the work.

But even that doesn't explain McLeary's devotion. Because for the last 25 of those years, he's been doing it with one eye.