opened what is now the Wendelstedt school in 1938. Later, former umpire Al Somers owned it for two decades until Harry Wendelstedt took over the school in 1977. Today it's run by Hunter ...

The Wendelstedt Umpire School has been an area fixture since the mid-’50s, when it was the Al Somers Umpire School — Al took it over from Bill McGowan and moved it from Cocoa Beach to the old ...