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Called out but safe : a baseball umpire's journey

2014

Formato:	Book
Autor:	Clark, Al, 1948-
Título:	Called out but safe : a baseball umpire's journey / Al Clark with Dan Schlossberg ; foreword by Marty Appel.
Editorial, Fecha:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014] ©2014
Descripción:	xxii, 198 pages, [14] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Resumen:	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Temas:	Clark, Al, 1948- Baseball umpires -- Biography.
Otro autor:	Schlossberg, Dan, 1948-
LCCN:	2013046023
ISBN:	9780803246881 (cloth : alk. paper) 0803246889 (cloth : alk. paper)
Otro número:	863854632
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N.º de artículos locales:	2
Número de control:	529943
Número de clasificación:	B Clar
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Kids do not dream of being umpires while playing pickup or Little League games. Nor did Clark. With sportswriter Schlossberg, he outlines his baseball life from being the son of a Yankees beat writer dreaming of suiting up for his beloved Bronx Bombers to becoming an entirely impartial umpire, calling pressure-packed World Series contests. Clark posits that each game is not comprised of two teams but rather three, including the officiating staff. He talks about his experiences umping and the key role of umpires in every game-having to be in the correct place at all times. He also delves into his dismissal from MLB and his four-month stint in a correctional facility for mail fraud-an ironic circumstance considering his policing role on the field for three decades. VERDICT Not your usual baseball book, but complementary to the myriad titles on players and teams. Clark, having called well over 3,000 MLB games, offers a perspective that is engaging as well as steeped in personal experience. It will be of interest to any baseball fan.-Brian Renvall (BRen), -Mesalands Community Coll., Tucumcari, NM (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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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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	Foreword	p. ix
	Preface	p. xiii
	Acknowledgments	p. Xvii
	Introduction	p. xxi
1	The Family Clark	p. 1
2	Getting Started	p. 13
3	The Art of Umpiring	p. 24
4	Dressing the Part	p. 54
5	My Office	p. 59
6	Names and Games	p. 66
7	Wives, Women, and Song	p. 81
8	The Yiddishe Umpire	p. 85
9	Billy, Earl, and a Few Dicks	p. 93
10	Bucky F. Dent	p. 109
11	Labor Pains	p. 113
12	Quaking in My Boots	p. 122
13	A Texas Connection	p. 129
14	Lights Out in Baltimore	p. 133
15	The Iron Man	p. 139
16	Credit Denied	p. 145
17	Jailhouse Rock	p. 151
18	Lasting Impressions	p. 176
	Epilogue	p. 193
	Appendix	p. 195

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