Called Out But Safe: A Baseball Umpire's Journey

by Al Clark and Dan Schlossberg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496205995
• ISBN13: 9781496205995
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"