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Author : Paul Trevillion
Release : 2009
Genre : Cricket
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 779/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis You Are the Umpire by : Paul Trevillion
Download or read book You Are the Umpire written by Paul Trevillion. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket.
Author : Doug Harvey
Release : 2014-03-25
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 810/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis They Called Me God by : Doug Harvey
Download or read book They Called Me God written by Doug Harvey. This book was released on 2014-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible memoir from the man voted one of the “Best Umpires of All Time” by the Society of American Baseball Research—filled with more than three decades of fascinating baseball stories. Doug Harvey was a California farm boy, a high school athlete who nevertheless knew that what he really wanted was to become an unsung hero—a major league umpire. Working his way through the minor leagues, earning three hundred dollars a month, he survived just about everything, even riots in stadiums in Puerto Rico. And while players and other umps hit the bars at night, Harvey memorized the rule book. In 1962, he broke into the big leagues and was soon listening to rookie Pete Rose worrying that he would be cut by the Reds and laying down the law with managers such as Tommy Lasorda and Joe Torre. This colorful memoir takes you behind the plate for some of baseball’s most memorable moments, including Roberto Clemente’s three thousandth and final hit; the heroic three-and-two pinch-hit home run by Kirk Gibson in the ’88 World Series; and the nail-biting excitement of the ’68 World Series. But beyond the drama, Harvey turned umpiring into an art. He was a man so respected, whose calls were so feared and infallible, that the players called him “God.” And through it all, he lived by three rules: never take anything from a player, never back down from a call, and never carry a grudge. A book for anyone who loves baseball, They Called Me God is a funny and fascinating tale of on- and off-the-field action, peopled by unforgettable characters from Bob Gibson to Nolan Ryan, and a treatise on good umpiring techniques. In a memoir that transcends the sport, Doug Harvey tells a gripping story of responsibility, fairness, and honesty.
Author : Pam Postema
Release : 2003-09-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 754/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis You've Got to Have Balls to Make it in this League by : Pam Postema
Download or read book You've Got to Have Balls to Make it in this League written by Pam Postema. This book was released on 2003-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In You?ve Got to Have Balls to Make It in This League Pam Postema reveals with frank language and uncompromising candor what it was like being an umpire in professional baseball. For thirteen seasons, from 1977 until her unconditional release in 1989, Postema umpired more than two thousand baseball games, making national news as she worked in various minor leagues as high as level AAA?one step below the majors. She also called many major league spring training games as well as the Hall of Fame game in 1988 between the Yankees and the Braves. ø Postema?s story is one of grit and determination to succeed in a profession dominated by men, but it is also an intimate look at umpiring. Postema discusses the mindset behind making a proper call, the weeks of intensive training, ejecting problem players and managers, and the chaos mixed with the monotony of being on the road most of the year. Throughout, Postema relates her encounters with major league stars when they were just up-and-comers in the minors.
Author : Lee Gutkind
Release : 2014-03-11
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 364/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand! by : Lee Gutkind
Download or read book The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand! written by Lee Gutkind. This book was released on 2014-03-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA fascinating and revealing look inside the lives of umpires, from the godfather of creative nonfiction/divDIV In 1974, Lee Gutkind walked into Shea Stadium, then home of the New York Mets, with an unusual proposal. He wanted to chronicle one of the least celebrated cadres in professional baseball: the umpires. Gutkind spent one exhilarating season traveling with the officiating crew he found that day—Doug Harvey, Nick Colosi, Harry Wendelstedt, and Art Williams, the first African American umpire in National League history. Gutkind’s narrative reveals much about the peculiarities of the men charged with the “thankless and impossible task of invoking order”—their work ethic, fallibility, and perhaps most strikingly, their pride./divDIV As resonant today as when it was first published, The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand! is an engrossing story of the men who work on one of the nation’s biggest stages, their victories and their failures, and their inner worlds that are rarely—if ever—explored./divDIV/div/div
Author : Ken Kaiser
Release : 2004-04-19
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 106/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Planet of the Umps by : Ken Kaiser
Download or read book Planet of the Umps written by Ken Kaiser. This book was released on 2004-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hysterical autobiography, Major League Baseball umpire Ken Kaiser brings to life his twenty-five years on the baseball diamond.
