Also, the heaviest umpires during that era in the National League—John McSherry, listed at  from 1992 to 1996, and Eric Gregg, listed at  were both later noted as actually exceeding those figures significantly; McSherry, who died on the field of a heart attack in 1996, was believed to have approached   and Gregg also conceded that his weight approached that level. After McSherry's death, Gregg took a two-month leave of absence in which he lost  but was still listed at  the following year.
The heaviest umpires during that era in the National League—John McSherry, listed at  from 1992 to 1996, and Eric Gregg, listed at  were both later noted as actually exceeding those figures significantly; McSherry, who died on the field of a heart attack in 1996, was believed to have approached   and Gregg also conceded that his weight approached that level. After McSherry's death, Gregg took a two-month leave of absence in which he lost  but was still listed at  the following year.