for that", says Ed. "and when I did, Yogi kept repeating, 'I didn't mean it, I didn't mean it'". "Finally I had to tell him to get out, and he said 'Okay, but I'll be waiting for you at the steps after the game and you gotta listen to me.'" Sure enough, after the game, there stood Yogi waiting for Hurley. Again he started, "You gotta believe me, I didn't mean it." "Please Yogi, not now", said Hurley, "It's been a hot game, and I'm tired. I want to go take a shower. Forget it." "Okay", said Berra. "But I'll be right here when you come out." Thirty minutes later in the deserted park, there stood Berra when Hurley came out with the others. "All I want to tell you", said Yogi, is that I didn't mean to bump you. I want you to say you believe me." "I believe you"', said Hurley. "We're friends?", said Berra. "We're friends", said Hurley. "He's such a great guy", says Hurley now, "I explained everything in my report and Yogi got fined only $50 with no suspension."''' Forced retirement after Hurley cofounds A. L. Umpires Committee Hurley, a Holyoke, Massachusetts native, was forced to retire at the end of the 1965 baseball season, after officiating 19 years in the American League. League rules were amended around that time to require mandatory retirement of umpires at the age of 55 years. Ed Hurley, Joe Paparella and Bill McKinley were the first subjected to mandatory retirement enforcement actions. Hurley said in a February 1966 Sporting News article, "I haven't retired; They are forcing me to retire. They are trying to put me in a wheelchair, but I'm not ready to get into it. I'm going to fight this thing all the way to the Commissioner's office if I have to. And if I don't get any satisfaction from him (William Eckert), I'll hire an attorney. ... I don't know of any business in the world that would do something like this to a man. Even a dog gets more consideration than we did. Why, even if an umpire is fired - if he's the worst in the business - he gets 10 days' notice. We got two days. Still they say we retired; Well, I didn't." Hurley unsuccessfully objected to the ruling and what he believed was an inappropriate manner of notice by American League