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Why does the baseball fan in Kill the Umpire become an umpire?
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In the 1950 film Kill the Umpire, directed by Lloyd Bacon, the protagonistāa baseball fanatic played by William Bendixābecomes an umpire out of financial necessity. He takes the job specifically to make ends meet.1