Wendelstedt Umpire School

The World's Most Successful Umpire School!
Providing formal, supervised training for students to qualify for umpire positions in professional, college, high school, independent professional, and youth baseball.

100% of the Wendelstedt Graduates sent to PBUC were called for placement in professional baseball, as well as our entire school reserve list! We continue to receive more jobs, and higher placements, than any other umpire program available!

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Wendelstedt Umpire School

The Harry Wendelstedt Umpire School, formerly the Al Somers Umpire School, was re-named in 1977. Al Somers was the founder of the Daytona Beach based school. He also was the originator of the entire training process. Al Somers has set every record for training umpires. More than seventy of his students have reached the Major Leagues during Al's fifty years of training. Al died 13 years ago. His memory and methods live on through the staff and training techniques they use. This great umpire dedicated his life to this profession.
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Harry Wendelstedt was trained by Al Somers and served as Chief Instructor at the Al Somers Umpire School for seventeen years. Wendelstedt is regarded by baseball people as one of the games most competent officials in history and has won world wide acclaim for his work in five World Series, five All Star Games and eleven Championship playoffs. He has been honored by the nations top sports banquets five times as the Major Leagues top umpire. He has served four terms as President of the Major League Umpire Association.
Among his honors, Sports Illustrated released a poll of major league ball players naming Harry Wendelstedt the best ball and strike umpire in the National League, and the best rated umpire several times by a Major League Baseball poll. Harry has been presented many prestigious honors from the city where he resides, including the naming of The Ormond Beach Sports Complex to the newly named Harry H. Wendelstedt, Jr. Sports Complex.
Harry was recently nominated for induction into the 2010 Baseball Hall of Fame class by his good friend and baseball writer, Dr. John McCollister. His nomination was seconded by Hall of Fame manager and lifelong friend (and sometimes on field combatant), Tommy LaSorda.

In 1998 Wendelstedt retired after 33 years as a National league umpire. He now resides in the Ormond Beach area and has dedicated himself to professional and amateur umpire training.

Please direct all communications to Harry Wendelstedt, Jr., 88 South St. Andrews Drive, Ormond Beach, Florida 32174. Ph. (800) 818-1690. FAX (888) 881-9801.
e-mail: admin@umpireschool.com.