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The Bookshelf Conversation: Al Clark

April 14, 2014

Feast or famine: we haven’t had a book written by a real umpire in how many years? Bruce Weber’s As They See ‘Em doesn’t count because he was an embedded journalist working on a project. This year we have two: Doug Harvey’s They Called Me God, and Al Clark’s Called Out but Safe. Clark, an […]

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Lest we forget: Al Forman

November 25, 2013

One of the few Jews to umpire in the Major Leagues, Allen “Al” Forman passed away Saturday at the age of 85. I had the pleasure of interviewing Forman in 2006 for a feature in the NJ Jewish News.

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