Called out but safe : a baseball umpire's journey /

"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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Al, 1948-
Other Authors: Schlossberg, Dan, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Series:IEEE Press series on biomedical engineering Introduction to tissue engineering
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Family Clark
  • 2. Getting Started
  • 3. art of Umpiring
  • 4. Dressing the Part
  • 5. My Office
  • 6. Names and Games
  • 7. Wives, Women, and Song
  • 8. Yiddishe Umpire
  • 9. Billy, Earl, and a Few Dicks
  • 10. Bucky F. Dent
  • 11. Labor Pains
  • 12. Quaking in My Boots
  • 13. Texas Connection
  • 14. Lights Out in Baltimore
  • 15. Iron Man
  • 16. Credit Denied
  • 17. Jailhouse Rock
  • 18. Lasting Impressions.