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Generation After Generation: The Boston Stewarts – A Lot To Live Up To

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Open the photo albums and you can see the Stewarts. Turn the page and listen to their stories – you’ll begin to feel the family’s traditions.

Bill Stewart can remember his grandpa’s stories. Bill heard them time and again. Stories of big games, great athletes, magical stadiums. Sports are a big part of the family tradition. But while lots of families hand down stories of legendary athletic events witnessed, the Stewart family hands down stories of participation, beginning with Grandpa Stewart, “Bill Sr.,” who was a National Hockey League (NHL) referee and a National League (N.L.) baseball umpire.

Generation After Generation: The Boston Stewarts – A Lot To Live Up To, by Dan Herbst, as appearing in Referee Magazine.

Stewarts Continue To Rule The Field

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It is a summer ritual that has been handed down from generation to generation for almost five decades by the Stewarts of Jamaica Plain.

First there was Bill Stewart Sr. who umped for 22 seasons in the National League. Then his son Bill Jr., who’s finishing his 30th season as an umpire in the Boston Park League. Then came Bill Stewart 3d, now working his fourth Park League season, right alongside his dad. Read more