About this title: In the bestselling tradition of George Plimpton's "Paper Lion, As They See Em" gets down, dirty, and loud with professional baseball umpires--granting readers unprecedented access to the hidden game inside America's favorite pastime.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2009-03-17
ISBN-13:9780743294119ISBN:0743294114
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780743294119ISBN:0743294114
Description: New. In the bestselling tradition of George Plimpton's "Paper Lion, As They See Em" gets down, dirty, and loud with professional baseball umpires--granting readers unprecedented access to the hidden game inside America's favorite pastime. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hard
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780743294119ISBN:0743294114
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 340pp Having earned the right to an insiders view, a look at the arcane rules by which umps work, the slight chance of going from the minors to the majors, their vocabulary, no one on their side, its all here and more. (Loc BB/1) read more
"Gets dry at times but there aren't enough books about umps. Add this to the growing immersion journalism. I did like how everyone hates the umps and their everyday work environment is disdain and arguments and other wonderful thunks and things."
"not bad, but I think I would have enjoyed it more if it was about 100 pages shorter...the last third of the book did not seem like it needed to be there. With that said, I do have a newfound appreciation of the art of umpiring. a 5 of 10"
"At first I thought this book was a waste of time, but Weber makes a good case that even the most rabid baseball fans know almost nothing about umpiring, despite the fact that umpires are at the heart of the game. As a baseball nerd I enjoyed the different perspectives on famous incidents (Robby Alomar spitting on an ump, George Brett rushing one in the Pine Tar game) but I doubt most folks will love this book."
"Stellar book. Well-written and fascinating. Weber attended the Jim Evans umpiring school in Florida and did extensive interviewing and research in an effort to bring fans inside the life and mind of a Major League umpire. I don't think reading this book will get anyone to go easier on umpires in the heat of the moment, but it will certainly help you after the fact when you think about what it is they do, exactly, without help from slo-mo television cameras and countless replays of every moment of the game, and what they have to go through to get this far. Great book."
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