Called Out But Safe: A Baseball Umpire's Journey Contributor(s): Clark, Al (Author), Schlossberg, Dan (Author), Appel, Marty (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1496205995 ISBN-13: 9781496205995 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - Science | Biotechnology - Medical | Family & General Practice - Biography & Autobiography | Sports |
Dewey: 610.28 |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.67 lbs) 236 pages |
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Publisher Description:
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 and only Jewish umpire hired by the American League and he was 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. Al Clark was a professional umpire for thirty years, working more than three thousand games, including two All-Star Games, ten playoff series, and two World Series. Former AP sportswriter Dan Schlossberg is the author or coauthor of more than thirty baseball books, including The New Baseball Bible and When the Braves Ruled the Diamond. |