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Called Out But Safe: A Baseball Umpire's Journey - Hardcover

Clark, Al

 
9780803246881: Called Out But Safe: A Baseball Umpire's Journey
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0803246889 ISBN 13: 9780803246881
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2014

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If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his thirty years as a professional umpire he took on some of baseball’s great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick Williams, while ejecting any number of the game’s elite—once tearing a hamstring in the process. He was the first Jewish umpire in American League history, and probably the first to eject his own father from the officials’ dressing room. But whatever Clark was doing—officiating at Nolan Ryan’s three hundredth win, Cal Ripken’s record breaker, or the “earthquake” World Series of 1989, or braving a labor dispute, an anti-Semitic tirade by a Cy Young Award winner, or a legal imbroglio—it makes for a good story.
 
Called Out but Safe is Clark’s outspoken and often hilarious account of his life in baseball from umpire school through the highlights to the inglorious end of his stellar career. Not just a source of baseball history and lore, Clark’s book also affords a rare look at what life is like for someone who works for the Major Leagues’ other team. 
 

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Al Clark was a professional umpire for thirty years, working more than three thousand games, including two All-Star Games, seven playoff series, and two World Series. Former AP sportswriter Dan Schlossberg is the author or coauthor of more than thirty baseball books, including Designated Hebrew: The Ron Blomberg Story and Making Airwaves: 60 Years at Milo’s Microphone.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803246889
ISBN 13 
9780803246881
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
198
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