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Called Out But Safe
Al ClarkDan Schlossberg
其他書名
A Baseball Umpire's Journey
出版U of Nebraska Press, 2014-05-01
主題Sports & Recreation / Baseball / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / SportsSports & Recreation / Baseball / History
ISBN08032549629780803254961
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lhT7AgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 baseballês great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick Williams, while ejecting any number of the gameês eliteãonce 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 officialsê dressing room. But whatever Clark was doingãofficiating at Nolan Ryanês three hundredth win, Cal Ripkenês 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 imbroglioãit makes for a good story.
¾Called Out but Safe is Clarkês 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, Clarkês book also affords a rare look at what life is like for someone who works for the Major Leaguesê other team.¾
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