Book of the week contest: They Called Me God

March 14, 2014 · 2 comments

Okay, let’s try this again.

Seems no one was that interested in The DiMaggios. No biggie; it now gets donated to my public library.

Maybe this one is more to your liking: They Called Me God: The Best Umpire Who Ever Lived, by Doug Harvey and Peter Golenbock.

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Although there were lots of comments on Facebook abut the BOTW contest, only a couple posted to the Bookshelf site itself. So once again, the rules:

The fifth person to post a comment on the site (not Facebook) wins. Only comments related to the overall scope of the blog, please; no “My team’s great, your team sucks” nonsense.

  1. If you’ve won a book in the last three months — and you’ll know who you are — you can’t win again. That doesn’t mean you can’t comment, though. Please do.
  2. I would appreciate the winners taking a picture of him- or herself with their giftee so I can post it on the blog.
  3. That’s it. Simple enough, no?

 

Have at it.

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Tagged as: Doug Harvey, Peter Golenbock, umpiring

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1 unifics March 14, 2014 at 2:54 pm

I want to read about his take on being the first ump to have a mustache in the seventies.

2 jlmulls2 March 14, 2014 at 7:08 pm

Golenbock’s team histories are in my home “library” – ‘Bums’ helped me write a paper for college way back in the day. I’m sure he does a thorough job on an umpire most baseball fans are familiar – of course there was Shag Crawford too. Quick trivia – it was Shag Crawford who made the cover of the Mets 1972 yearbook.

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