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The Book of the Week contest: They Called Me God (Update)

March 14, 2014 · 5 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. Although there were lots of comments on […]

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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. Although there were lots of comments on […]

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* Bruce Weber offers a safe bet for an outstanding look at umpiring

April 10, 2009 · 1 comment

Would baseball fans want a world in which all the calls on the field could be made by Questec-type devices or the Cyclops machines used in tennis? Are umpires part of the game or outside it? Are they, as one baseball personality suggested, pieces of human equipment, like bases: necessary but not thought about that […]

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