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Conlan began his major league career in 1934 as an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox. In 1935, however, Conlan was presented with an unusual opportunity. During a game against the St. Louis Browns, umpire Red Ormsby fell ill due to the heat and Conlan was asked to fill in. The following year Conlan made the transition from player to umpire complete, beginning in the minor leagues.
Conlan umpired in the National League from 1941 to 1964, officiating in five World Series ( 1945, '50, '54, '57 and '61) and six All-Star games (1943, '47, '50, '53, '58 and '62). He also umpired in the playoff series to decide the NL's regular-season champions in 1951, '59 and '62. He was the home plate umpire when Gil Hodges hit four home runs on August 31, 1950; he also umpired in the April 30, 1961 game in which Willie MaysWillie Howard Mays, Jr. born May 6, 1931) is a former star of Major League Baseball. Mays, nicknamed The Say Hey Kid played center field throughout nearly all his career and is regarded as one of the finest players ever to have played the game. The epitom hit four home runs.
Conlan was elected to the Baseball Hall of FameNational Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum based in Cooperstown, New York, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests that serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in North America, the display of baseball-related a by the Committee on Baseball VeteransThe Veterans Committee officially the Committee on Baseball Veterans is a committee of the National Baseball Hall of Fame that provides a "second chance" for Hall of Fame election to players passed over in regular Hall of Fame balloting. It also serves as in 1974See also 1973 in sports, other events of 1974, 1975 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'. Auto Racing Stock car racing: Richard Petty won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship Richard Petty IROC Championship inaugural year won by Mark Donohue Indiana.
His son John Bertrand Conlan served as a U.S. RepresentativeThe House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the United States Congress, the other being the United States Senate. Members Members of the House are elected for a term of two years. Elections alternately coincide with the president from ArizonaArizona was the 48th state admitted to the United States and is part of the Southwest United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, south and east of the Colorado River, bordering New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California and Mexico. Its major cities ar from 1973 to 1977.