Baseball

A teen-age umpire for a boys baseball league in East St. Louis, Ill., went back on the job one day after a coach allegedly fired several shots at him during a game.

Police said they were holding Curtis Fair, 31, who fired at 16-year-old umpire Roderick Fisher Jr. after he called a 9-year-old boy on Fair’s team out at home plate.

Fair ran onto the field and loudly asked Fisher why he was “making all these bad calls,” police said. Fisher ejected Fair, who grabbed a bat, according to police reports, and ran after Fisher, threatening to “bust your head. I’ll kill you.”

A relative of Fair wrestled the bat away.

About 10 minutes later, Fisher said he saw Fair walking toward him. “He got about 10 feet from me and said, ‘Now I’m going to kill you,’ ” Fisher told police.

After emptying his gun at Fisher, Fair fled, police said, adding that Fair fired a .38-caliber revolver at Fisher from 10 feet away but missed.