Tom Gorman was born January 19 1946 in Seattle, Washington. He attended Seattle Prep and was the Washington State High School champion three years in a row. Tom attended and graduated from Seattle University and was a two time All-American. He played professional in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and served as Captain of the United States Davis Cup team from 1986 to 1993.

He was ranked as high worldwide as number ten on the ATP rankings (achieving that ranking on May 1, 1974).

Gorman won seven singles titles in his career, the biggest coming in 1975 at Cincinnati. He also won nine doubles titles, including Paris in 1971, the same year he reached the French Open doubles final.

Gorman reached the semifinal rounds in singles at Wimbledon (in 1971), the U.S. Open (in 1972) and the French Open (in 1973), and was a member of the winning U.S. Davis Cup team in 1972. As coach, he led the U.S. Davis Cup team to victory in 1990 & 1992. Tom holds the record for most match wins (18) by a U.S. Davis Cup Captain and is the most current American to have won Davis Cup as a player and a captain. In 2001, Tom and his partner Jaime Fillol,Chile, won the Super Masters Seniors at the U.S Open.

Today, Tom lives in Marietta,GA with his wife Danni and two daughters Hailey and KellyAnn.

Thomas David Gorman (March 16 1919 - August 11 1986) was an American left-handed pitcher and umpire in Major League Baseball who pitched five innings in four games for the New York Giants in 1939, and went on to serve as a National League umpire from 1951 to 1976 and then as a league supervisor. His son Brian has been a major league umpire since 1993.

Gorman was born in New York City and grew up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. After pitching in the minor leagues for three years, he served in the Army in Europe as a member of the 16th Infantry during World War II. An injury in 1946 ended his playing career; faced with the choice of returning to New York City and becoming a plumber, he became aware of an umpiring position in the New England League, and although he felt he was not cut out to be an umpire, his wife persuaded him to take the position for the 1947 season for $180 per month. He later moved up to the International League in 1949. He also coached baseball at Rice High School in Manhattan, a Christian Brothers school.

After joining the NL staff, he umpired in the World Series in 1956 (outfield only), 1958, 1963, 1968 and 1974, serving as crew chief in the last two Series. His most famous World Series contest came in Game 1 of the 1968 Series, when he called balls and strikes as Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals struck out a Series-record 17 Detroit Tigers.

He also officiated in the National League Championship Series in 1971 and 1975, serving as crew chief in 1971, and in the three-game playoff to determine the NL champion in 1959. He also worked in the All-Star Game in 1954, 1958, 1960 (both games) and 1969, calling balls and strikes for the second half of the second 1960 game. During a game in the 1962 season, he discovered that the Giants (by now in San Francisco) were having their groundskeepers water down the Candlestick Park infield to slow down the Los Angeles Dodgers' Maury Wills; Gorman stopped the game for an hour and a half to allow the field to dry out.

Among the notable games in which he umpired were nine no-hitters, tying a record for NL umpires shared by Frank Secory and Augie Donatelli; he tied the mark on July 9, 1976, working second base in Larry Dierker's 6-0 win. Paul Pryor, who also officiated in that game, tied the mark himself later that year, and broke it upon working in his 10th no-hitter in 1978. Gorman was the home plate umpire for two no-hitters - Warren Spahn's first on September 16, 1960, and Bill Stoneman's first on April 17, 1969. He was the left field umpire for Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. He was the home plate umpire on June 15, 1952 when the St. Louis Cardinals set an NL record by overcoming an 11-0 deficit to beat the Giants 14-12, and again two weeks later on June 29 when the Chicago Cubs scored seven runs with two out in the ninth inning to beat the Cincinnati Reds 9-8. Two years later, on August 8, 1954, he was again the home plate umpire when the Reds gave up a record 12 runs (all of them unearned) after there were two out and no one base in the eighth inning of a 20-7 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers; the inning ended only when Gil Hodges' bid for a grand slam was caught high off the center field wall. And on May 2, 1956, he was again behind the plate as the Giants and Cubs used 48 players in a 6-5, 17-inning New York victory; Cub Don Hoak struck out a record six times against six different pitchers.

In 1975 he was honored by the Al Somers Umpire School as the Outstanding Umpire of 1974. In his acceptance remarks, he said of umpiring, "It's a hard road but a good road. Sometimes you'll ask yourself if it's worth it. If you've got the guts and the skills, the answer is bound to be yes." He added, "People may come to see ballplayers, but there'd be no baseball without good umpires."

Mad magazine ran an article presenting hypothetical magazines from other planets. In the interplanetary version of Sports Illustrated, umpire Tom Gorman explains why he threw out a player from Venus: "He opened up ten mouths to me!"

Gorman married Margaret Fay on October 7 1944, and they had three sons and a daughter before her death c. 1968 ; they resided in Whitestone, Queens until c. 1965, when they moved to Closter, New Jersey. His autobiography Three and Two!, co-written with Jerome Holtzman, was published in 1979. Gorman died of a heart attack in Closter at age 67, and was buried in George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus.

Tom Gorman (1900 - 1978) was an Australian rugby league player. He was a Centre three-quarter for the Australian national team. He played in 10 Tests between 1924 and 1930 as captain on 7 occasions. Born in Charters Towers Gorman was the first Queenslander to lead a Kangaroo touring side to Britain.

Tom Gorman is a former pitcher in MLB who played for the New York Yankees and Kansas City Athletics.