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Title: The Best Seat in Baseball, but You Have to Stand!: The Game As Umpires See It (Writing Baseball) by Lee Gutkind, Eric Rolfe Greenberg ISBN: 0-8093-2195-5 Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Mediocre
Comment: For this genre, the book is mediocre. If anything, I would say that the writing style is wrong. It may be "creative writing" but it reads more like a novel than non-fiction. Now, non-fiction does not mean it has to be boring! Certainly, some of the stories are interesting, but it often became a chore to read. Not a bad book, but certainly not the best it could be.
Rating: 1
Summary: A major disappointment
Comment: The first thing you should know about this book is it's based on the 1975 season, which means that none of the umpires or players mentioned are contemporary.
Beyond that, this is poorly done and unethically done at that. Late in the book, the author admits that he pretended to be sleeping in order to eavesdrop on the conversation between two umpires in a hotel room. He says he threw away drinks and pretended to be drunk so they'd talk openly in front of him.
If the ethics don't bother you, consider this: how accurate are the conversations he quotes, considering he had no tape recorder and reconstructed them after the fact? Could you relate word-for-word a conversation you had with a co-worker this morning?
Baseball umpires could be the subject for a great book. This isn't it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A brutally honest, yet very engrossing read.
Comment: Very few people know what the rigours and stresses of a pro sport official are as well as the personal setbacks and of course the professional flaws. This book has all of the above, excellently written and clearly shows what being a major sports league's messenger (since umpires just enforce the rules) is really like. Just as now, the dealings with overpaid, spoiled players, coaches and managers are well described. One of the best books I've ever read.
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Title: You're Out and You're Ugly, Too! : Confessions Of An Umpire With Attitude by Durwood Merrill, Jim Dent ISBN: 0312969007 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Planet of the Umps: A Baseball Life from Behind the Plate by Ken Kaiser, David Fisher ISBN: 0312304161 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Standing the Gaff: The Life and Hard Times of a Minor League Umpire by Harry "Steamboat" Johnson, Larry R. Gerlach ISBN: 080327579X Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano, D. Fisher ISBN: 0553050109 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Strike Two by Ron Luciano ISBN: 0553050494 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $3.98 |
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