Marquette native Adam Hamari to umpire in Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game
Umpire Adam Hamari of Marquette, left, watches Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Josh Rojas makes a fielding error in a game against the Miami Marlins on May 12 in Phoenix. (AP file photo)
NEW YORK — Marquette’s own Adam Hamari will be one of a half-dozen umpires working on the field at Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game at Coors Field in Denver on Tuesday evening.
Hamari will be working in right field, one of the extra positions umpires are stationed at during playoff and All-Star games like these. This will be first All-Star Game appearance.
Hamari, who has worked in the majors for more than a decade and became a full-time MLB umpire in 2017, worked as a replay umpire during the divisional series round of last fall’s playoffs.
Tom Hallion, a 28-year major league veteran, will be the plate umpire and crew chief. He was left field umpire for the 1992 All-Star Game in San Diego and second base umpire for the 2008 game at Yankee Stadium.
He will be joined by CB Bucknor at first base, Chris Guccione at second base, Lance Barrett at third base and David Rackley in left field.
Bucknor worked left field at the 2005 game in Detroit, and Guccione worked right field in the 2011 game at Arizona. Like Hamari, Barrett and Rackley will each work their first All-Star Game.
Greg Gibson will be the replay umpire in New York.
Colorado-based Dave Einspahr will be the official scorer.
In addition, NL manager Dave Roberts of the Los Angeles Dodgers invited Reggie Smith to be an honorary coach. Smith was a member of the Dodgers’ 1981 World Series champions.
Double-A umpires Darius Ghani (home), Michael Rains (first), Mark Stewart (second) and Sam Burch (third) will work Saturday’s All-Star Futures Game.
Some information for this story was compiled by Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee. His email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.






