Ray Snyder
Raymond W. Snyder
Ray Snyder was an umpire in the Pacific Coast League who is famous for his part in an incident which took place on July 13, 1941.
That day, during a heated argument with Eddie Mayo of the Los Angeles Angels, he was convinced that Mayo spit in his face and filed a report to the league office accordingly. League President William C. Tuttle was on a bit of a crusade to clean up the league at the time, and on July 16th, he issued a one-year suspension for Mayo. mayo denied that he had spit and filed an appeal to the league's Executive Committee, which lifted the suspension on September 5th.
His umpiring career lasted from 1928 to 1945, with almost all of this period in two of the highest-level minor leagues of the time, the PCL and the American Association.
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