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Joe West has made it official, retiring from Major League Baseball after umpiring a record 5,460 regular-season games. The 69-year-old West worked his first big league game on Sept. 14, 1976, at third base in Atlanta when the Braves hosted the Houston Astros. His finale was on Oct. 6, when he worked home plate at Dodger Stadium for the National League wild-card game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals. Known as Country Joe, West set the record for regular-season games May 25, when he worked the plate for a game between the Chicago White Sox and Cardinals. National League umpire Bill Klem had held the […]