Career
Jorda begame his baseball career in 1913 as a catcher for the Gadsden Steel Makers of the Georgia–Alabama League. He played in the minor leagues until 1916. In 1919, Jorda started his umpiring career in the Cotton States League.
He moved on to the Southern League in 1920, and stayed there until after the 1926 season.
The National League hired Jorda in 1927. Over his 18-year big league umpiring career, Jorda umpired 2,509 major league games, in addition to working two All-Star Games (1941 and 1951), and two World Series (1945, and 1949).
After his umpiring career, he was a partner in a beer distributorship with retired colleague Beans Reardon in southern California. Jorda was one of the umpires featured in Norman Rockwell"s famous painting Bottom of the Sixth, along with Reardon and Larry Goetz.
Jorda died at his Florida home on May 27, 1964.
