Chicago White Sox's Ozzie Guillen is called safe at third by umpire Durwood Merrill and heads for home after Cleveland Indians third baseman Jim Thome couldn't hang on to a throw in the ninth inning Friday, July 5, 1996, at Jacobs Field in Cleveland. Merrill, an American League umpire for 23 years who worked the 1988 World Series, died Saturday, Jan. 11, 2003, at age 64. (AP Photo/Piet van Lier)