BleedCubbieBlue, a — what else — Cubs blog, posted this review of Bruce Weber’s book. Upshot: “Bruce Weber, you wrote one heckuva book.”
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Umpires have beengetting a lot of bad press lately, and deservedly so. Sports pundits are calling for wider use of instant replay in an effort to make the right calls, primarily on fair and foul balls and other on-base issues. One area they pretty much agree should not be touched is balls and strikes. Sure, [...]
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William Fisher takes umbrage with the anaology in his Aug. 10 Huffington Post column: But Republican Senators, evidently chagrined at being unable to hit a home run based on the nominee’s judicial record, turned to The Nation’s Pastime. The baseball analogy has become widely used by nominees ever since now-Chief Justice John Roberts famously stated [...]
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from the aptly-named New-Books-Review.com, this collection of reviews on Bruce Weber’s gem.
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This entry on Officiating.com refers George F. Will’s column on Bruce Weber’s new book, As They See ‘Em. Strictly speaking, it is not, as the title asserts, a paean for umpires, but rather dap for the book.
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From George Will, syndicated in the Seattle Times. Upshot: Forests are felled to produce baseball books, about 600 a year, most of them not worth the paper they should never have been printed on. Weber’s, however, is a terrific introduction to, among much else, the rule book’s Talmudic subtleties…
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Another review of Bruce Weber’s book on umpires? This one is by Jim Bouton, and the author of the seminal Ball Four, who does his usual witty job. But as interesting as it is to get different takes, one wonders why the publication that employs Weber would publish more than one critique just over a [...]
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Scott Simon reviews Bruce Weber’s new book on umpires. You can read an excerpt here.
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Is it just me, or has there been a surprisingly small amount of outcry from baseball traditionalists (aka, old folks like me), objecting to the use of instant replay in baseball? MLB instituted the practice this week, using it primarily for home runs. Seems someone high up on the food chain was tired of too [...]
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, by Saul Wisnia.
, by Glenn Stout
, by Steven Travers.
by Jimmy Piersall and Al Hirshberg
, by Michael Bishop and 
by Robert Coover
* Here come de judge?
July 13, 2009 · 0 comments
Bruce Weber, author of As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires (one of my top three books of the year), published this piece in The New York Times’ Week in review section, comapring the roles of arbiters in the legal system and on the baseball diamond. “Have you read Roe v. [...]
Tagged as: Bruce Weber, Sonia Sotomayor, umpires
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