 Although he noted in his 2003 autobiography that he already weighed in high school, the AL listed his weight at from 1977 to 1979 and at 200 from 1980 to 1982 before revising the figure to in 1983.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.