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A Baseball Umpire S Journey (Paperback) ARGJYYQLM2U5 / Book ^ Called Out but Safe: A Baseball Umpire s Journey (Paperback) Called Out but Safe: A Baseball Umpire s Journey (Paperback) Filesize: 1.08 MB Reviews Very useful to all of class of individuals. This really is for all those who statte there had not been a worthy of looking at. I am just very happy to let you know that here is the finest ebook i have got go through within my individual daily life and might be he finest ebook for actually. (Delores Mitchell PhD) DISCLAIMER | DMCA MODDJ2N5SN4X > Doc \ Called Out but Safe: A Baseball Umpire s Journey (Paperback) CALLED OUT BUT SAFE: A BASEBALL UMPIRE S JOURNEY (PAPERBACK) University of Nebraska Press, United States, 2018. Paperback. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English . Brand New Book. 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 his own father from the oicials dressing room. But whatever Clark was doing-oiciating at Nolan Ryan s three hundredth win, Cal Ripken s 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 imbroglio-it makes for a good story. Called Out but Safe is Clark s outspoken and oen hilarious account of his life in baseball from umpire school through the highlights to the inglorious end of his stellar career. 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