The Umpire Strikes Back

Author : Ron Luciano,David Fisher
Publisher : Permuted Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781637583791

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The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano,David Fisher Pdf

Here is Ron Luciano, the funniest ump ever to call balls and strikes. A huge and awesome legend who leaps and spins and shoots players with an index finger while screaming OUTOUTOUT!!! Now baseball's flamboyant fan-on-the-field comes out from behind the mask to call the game as he really sees it. There’s the day the automatic umpire debuted at home plate—and struck out. The time Rod Carew stole home twice in one inning, and Earl Weaver stole second base—and took it back to the dugout. The pitch Tommy John dropped on the mound, which Luciano called a strike. And there’s the fantastic phantom double play, the impossible frozen ice-ball theory, and, another first, Luciano picking Harmon Killebrew off second base. From brawls to catcalls, from dugout jokes to on-the-field pratfalls to one-of-a-kind conversations with baseball’s greats, Ron Luciano, the only umpire who confessed to missing calls, takes a few grand slam swings of his own. It is baseball at its best.

Author : Doug Harvey,Peter Golenbock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476748818

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They Called Me God by Doug Harvey,Peter Golenbock Pdf

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 : Ron Luciano,David Fisher
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Baseball umpires
ISBN : 0816137722

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Strike Two by Ron Luciano,David Fisher Pdf

Author : Ken Kaiser,David Fisher
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781429976060

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Planet of the Umps by Ken Kaiser,David Fisher Pdf

For twenty-five years, Ken Kaiser was the most colorful umpire in the major leagues. Planet of the Umps is his sidesplitting tale of life behind the plate. "Two things nobody wants to grow up to be are an umpire and broke. Thanks to my career in baseball, I got both." After calling balls, strikes, and outs for thirty-six baseball seasons and more than three thousand major-league games, umpire Ken Kaiser finally called it a career. From the first day he hit a minor-league catcher with a pool table to the fateful day baseball called him out on a strike, Kaiser was one of the game's most popular and colorful characters. And in this autobiography--written with the coauthor of Ron Luciano's classic bestseller The Umpire Strikes Back--Kaiser brings to life his wild adventures from the pro-wrestling arena to the baseball diamond. This is the hysterically true story of four decades of baseball as lived and loved on the playing field, from Ted Williams and Billy Martin to Derek Jeter and Mark McGwire, from one-eyed umpires to space-age technology. As he did throughout his long and sometimes controversial career, the larger-than-his-chest-protector Kaiser calls 'em as he saw 'em.

Author : Khalid Hasan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Pakistan
ISBN : UOM:39015025104004

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The Umpire Strikes Back by Khalid Hasan Pdf

Author : Gene Fehler
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780310410195

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Never Blame the Umpire by Gene Fehler Pdf

How do you trust God when tragedy strikes?Kate is having the best summer a sports-loving eleven-year-old could possibly have. Baseball. Tennis. And to top it off, Kate has just started a three-week class where she's discovering a new love: poetry.Then comes the news that tears Kate's world apart. In her close-knit family, Kate has always felt God's love and protection. But how can she trust God now? Do sports or poetry matter when tragedy strikes?In Kate's darkest hour, her mother's faith shines its brightest, helping Kate to see that life is still beautiful and God is still good. Always, no matter what.

Author : Dale Scott,Rob Neyer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496232052

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The Umpire Is Out by Dale Scott,Rob Neyer Pdf

Dale Scott’s career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, working in every Major League Baseball stadium, and interacting with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and hundreds of players, from future Hall of Famers to one-game wonders. Scott has enough stories about his career on the field to fill a dozen books, and there are plenty of those stories here. He’s not interested in settling scores, but throughout the book he’s honest about managers and players, some of whom weren’t always perfect gentlemen. But what makes Scott’s book truly different is his unique perspective as the only umpire in the history of professional baseball to come out as gay during his career. Granted, that was after decades of remaining in the closet, and Scott writes vividly and movingly about having to “play the game”: maintaining a facade of straightness while privately becoming his true self and building a lasting relationship with his future husband. He navigated this obstacle course at a time when his MLB career was just taking off—and when North America was consumed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Scott’s story isn’t only about his leading a sort of double life, then opening himself up to the world and discovering a new generosity of spirit. It’s also a baseball story, filled with insights and memorable anecdotes that come so naturally from someone who spent decades among the world’s greatest baseball players, managers, and games. Scott’s story is fascinating both for his umpiring career and for his being a pioneer for LGBTQ people within baseball and across sports.

Author : David Walke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1900899167

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Umpire Strikes Back by David Walke Pdf

Author : Xan Barksdale
Publisher : Author House
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781463439590

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Catching-101 by Xan Barksdale Pdf

CATCHING-101: The Complete Guide for Baseball Catchers is the most comprehensive book ever written for baseball catchers. It contains tips, drills, and proper mechanics that will help every catcher or coach better understand the most difficult position on the field. This book contains information on EVERY aspect of catching that Coach Barksdale has learned through his years of experience from coaching nationally ranked NCAA teams, and playing at almost every level from Little League to professional baseball. A few of the topics covered in CATCHING-101 are: Receiving Blocking Catching Pop Flies Throwing Fielding Bunts Plays at Home Plate Drills Pitchouts Pass Balls/Wild Pitches Giving Signals And More! If you have been searching for a source with lots of high quality information about catching, this is the book for you! CATCHING-101 was written by Coach Xan Barksdale who is currently an NCAA Division I baseball coach and an ex-professional baseball player. Coach Barksdale played in the Atlanta Braves organization and has been a featured speaker at the prestigious ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association) national convention.

Author : John McEnroe,James Kaplan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101204405

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You Cannot Be Serious by John McEnroe,James Kaplan Pdf

A no-holds-barred, intimate memoir by John McEnroe—the bad boy of professional tennis. John McEnroe stunned the tennis elite when he came out of nowhere to make the Wimbledon semifinals at the age of eighteen—and just a few years later, he was ranked number one in the world. You Cannot Be Serious is McEnroe at his most personal, an intimate examination of Johnny Mac, the kid from Queens, and his “wild ride” through the world of professional tennis at a boom time when players were treated like rock stars. In this “bracing serve-and-volley autobiography” (The Boston Globe) he candidly explores the roots of his famous on-court explosions; his ambivalence toward the sport that made him famous; his adventures (and misadventures) on the road; his views of colleagues from Connors to Borg to Lendl; his opinions of contemporary tennis; his marriages to actress Tatum O'Neal and pop star Patty Smyth; and his roles as husband, father, senior tour player, and often-controversial commentator.

Author : Ron Luciano,David Fisher
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987-03
Category : Baseball umpires
ISBN : 0553261339

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The Fall of the Roman Umpire by Ron Luciano,David Fisher Pdf

The wildly funny, bestselling author of The Umpire Strikes Back and Strike Two has collected into one volume the best of baseball's bloopers, blunders, and bench-warmers. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs.

Author : Armando Galarraga,Jim Joyce,Daniel Paisner
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780802195593

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Nobody's Perfect by Armando Galarraga,Jim Joyce,Daniel Paisner Pdf

The Detroit Tigers, an umpire, a pitcher, and a mistake—one of the “classic, human, baseball stories” (Ken Burns, creator of the PBS mini-series Baseball). The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in over 130 years, it has happened only twenty times. On June 2, 2010, Armando Galarraga threw baseball’s twenty-first. Except that’s not how it entered the record books. That’s because Jim Joyce, voted the best umpire in the game in 2010 and 2011, missed the call on the final out. But rather than throwing a tantrum, Galarraga simply turned and smiled, went back to the mound, and finished the game. “Nobody’s perfect,” he said later in the locker room. “You might think everything that could have been said, replayed, and revealed about that night has already been uttered, logged, and exposed. You would, however, be as wrong as the unfortunate Mr. Joyce” (The Detroit News). In Nobody’s Perfect, Galarraga and Joyce come together to tell the personal story of a remarkable game that will live forever in baseball lore, and to trace their fascinating lives in sports. The result is “a masterpiece”, an absorbing insider’s look at two careers in baseball, a tremendous achievement, and an enduring moment of pure grace and sportsmanship (The Huffington Post).

Author : Alva Noë
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SPORTS & RECREATION
ISBN : 9780190928186

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Infinite Baseball by Alva Noë Pdf

"...Philosopher and baseball fan Alva Noë explores the many unexpected ways in which baseball is truly a philosophical kind of game. For example, he ponders how observers of baseball are less interested in what happens, than in who is responsible for what happens; every action receives praise or blame. To put it another way, in baseball - as in the law - we decide what happened based on who is responsible for what happened. Noe also explains the curious activity of keeping score: a score card is not merely a record of the game, like a video recording; it is an account of the game. Baseball requires that true fans try to tell the story of the game, in real time, as it unfolds, and thus actively participate in its creation. Some argue that baseball is fundamentally a game about numbers. Noe's wide-ranging, thoughtful observations show that, to the contrary, baseball is not only a window on language, culture, and the nature of human action, but is intertwined with deep and fundamental human truths."--Dust jacket flap.

Author : Durwood Merrill,Jim Dent
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0312182376

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You're Out and You're Ugly, Too! by Durwood Merrill,Jim Dent Pdf

In the tradition of Ron Luciano's bestselling "The Umpire Strikes Back", Durwood Merrill, baseball's most outspoken umpire offers two decades' worth of his sometimes hilarious, always controversial opinions on managers, life on the diamond, the players, and more. of photos.

Author : Jrr Tokin
Publisher : Adventures of the Great Neblinski
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1637060335

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The Umpire Strikes Back by Jrr Tokin Pdf

Szvirf and his new friend and companion, Musky, now prisoners of the dark lord, Calabac (gawd, I hate that guy), are about to be interrogated and probably worse ... Meanwhile, Durik, the mighty paladin of Shiddumbuzzin, (and a huge group of Gnomes), are trapped in a pocket dimension, inside of a glass reliquary called The Bong, which is trapped in a pocket dimension, inside of a magical pouch on my back. Oy! ​Grarr, their fearless leader, unbeknownst to the rest of the group, had sacrificed himself to save Beornag and a caravan of Gnomish slaves. Overwhelmed by superior numbers and the vilest of evil magics, he finally succumbed to blood loss and exhaustion. Raz, the titanic Gillian warrior, had not been heard from since mounting his trusty flying dinosaur-steed, Eekadinosaur, to travel northeast to warn Briarwood of the impending army to the south. Oy! Only Beornag, the Holy-man-stand-up-comedian-Hill-Troll, is still accounted for. Using his hindbrain, and his Maul of the Mountain, he had infiltrated the enemy stronghold and was hard at work rescuing his friends, (and Lillia's sister, of course). But can Beornag face an entire fortress full of evil monsters and darkest magic alone? Oy!