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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803246889
• ISBN13: 9780803246881
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"