Ed Hickox (umpire)
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Hickox in 2012
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July 31, 1962 DeLand, Florida |
| MLB debut | May 16, 1990 |
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Edwin William Hickox (born July 31, 1962) is an umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1990 to 1999 and throughout both major leagues beginning in 2005. He wears uniform number 15 (he wore uniform number 39 during his American League tenure). Hickox has officiated in the 2007, 2010, and 2012 National League Division Series, as well as the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Hickox became an Eagle Scout in 1979. He graduated from DeLand High School and St. Johns River Community College, where he played baseball. He completed training at the Harry Wendelstedt Umpire School in 1983.
Hickox went on to umpire for several of baseball's minor leagues, and worked regularly as a substitute in the AL before his formal promotion to the league's staff in 1999. He resigned his position following the 1999 season as part of a failed union bargaining strategy; he worked in the minor leagues before becoming an MLB reserve umpire in 2005 following the adoption of a new union contract. He returned as a full member of the major league staff in 2007. Hickox worked the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006. He also worked the 2009 and 2013 World Baseball Classics.
Hickox is known for wearing his plate coat over his chest protector when he works the plate, forgoing the pullover shirt or pullover jacket. He also wears the new hockey-style mask, and is reputed to be the only MLB umpire to wear a hat underneath it.
A Hardball Times report listed Hickox as having one of the smallest strike zones in baseball during the 2011 season.
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