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Originally Posted by FatJack
I don't suppose there's an ID of the umpire. Looks a bit like Augie Donatelli but, coming from me (with my well established poor facial recognition skills), that's fairly meaningless.
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I did a ProQuest search on Gatewood for March, 1962. The only game between the Mets and the Dodgers which I picked up was on March 14th. The Dodgers B team played the Mets in St. Petersburg, FL. Gatewood pitched 3 innings. Tracewski played the entire game and scored two runs, so I think this is the game when the photo was shot. The three umpires for the game were Al Barlick, Doug Harvey, and Vinnie Smith. It's likely that the home plate umpire is the one who was listed first in the box score; that was Barlick. Most Barlick photos don't look much like the ump in the subject photo, but I've attached one which I think bears some resemblance, although he was obviously a younger man in the attached shot.