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Author : George Demetriou
Publisher : Referee Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 9781582080079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Smart Baseball Umpiring written by George Demetriou and published by Referee Enterprises. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leighton L. Smith
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1648044131
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Download or read book How to Play Smart Baseball written by Leighton L. Smith and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Play Smart Baseball By: Leighton L. Smith How to Play Smart Baseball is a user-friendly guide to playing baseball that anyone can use. It gives practical suggestions on how to play baseball better, including ideas and tactics for managers, coaches and players of all positions. Using real-life examples from throughout the history of the sport, How to Play Smart Baseball advocates a smarter, more engaging way to play the game while memorizing some of the best players and plays of all time. Amateur of professional, all readers can use this book as a companion to enhance their experience in watching, discussing, or playing the game.
Author : Ken Kaiser
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312997106
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Planet of the Umps written by Ken Kaiser and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hysterical autobiography, Major League Baseball umpire Ken Kaiser brings to life his twenty-five years on the baseball diamond.
Author : Buddy Bell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312333355
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Smart Baseball written by Buddy Bell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What goes on in a baseball player's mind is critical to the outcome of the game. Since most major leaguers are in peak physical condition, the difference between success and failure on the field often depends on a player's mental approach. Looking at everything from a player's confidence to his leadership skills, instincts, and hunches, Smart Baseball uses entertaining anecdotes to get inside the mind of baseball's greats and show fans what goes through a player's head when he steps onto the field. Smart Baseball presents the knowledge and accumulated experience of one of the few three-generation baseball families---the Bells. In addition, this book is full of insights from more than one hundred of Major League Baseball's greatest players---from Willie Mays to Barry Bonds to Ferguson Jenkins. A fascinating and informative look at what goes on in the psyche of professional baseball players as they play the game, Smart Baseball is a unique chance for baseball fans to see what it takes for ballplayers to succeed at the Major League level.
Author : Ron Luciano
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 1637583796
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Umpire Strikes Back written by Ron Luciano and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is Ron Luciano, the funniest ump ever to call balls and strikes. A huge and awesome legend who leaps and spins and shoots players with an index finger while screaming OUTOUTOUT!!! Now baseball's flamboyant fan-on-the-field comes out from behind the mask to call the game as he really sees it. There’s the day the automatic umpire debuted at home plate—and struck out. The time Rod Carew stole home twice in one inning, and Earl Weaver stole second base—and took it back to the dugout. The pitch Tommy John dropped on the mound, which Luciano called a strike. And there’s the fantastic phantom double play, the impossible frozen ice-ball theory, and, another first, Luciano picking Harmon Killebrew off second base. From brawls to catcalls, from dugout jokes to on-the-field pratfalls to one-of-a-kind conversations with baseball’s greats, Ron Luciano, the only umpire who confessed to missing calls, takes a few grand slam swings of his own. It is baseball at its best.
Author : Buddy Bell
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466854952
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Smart Baseball written by Buddy Bell and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and informative look at what goes on in the psyche of professional baseball players as they play the game, Smart Baseball is a unique chance for baseball fans to see what it takes for ballplayers to succeed at the Major League level. What goes on in a baseball player's mind is critical to the outcome of the game. Since most major leaguers are in peak physical condition, the difference between success and failure on the field often depends on a player's mental approach. Looking at everything from a player's confidence to his leadership skills, instincts, and hunches, Smart Baseball uses entertaining anecdotes to get inside the mind of baseball's greats and show fans what goes through a player's head when he steps onto the field. Smart Baseball presents the knowledge and accumulated experience of one of the few three-generation baseball families--the Bells. In addition, this book is full of insights from more than one hundred of Major League Baseball's greatest players--from Willie Mays to Barry Bonds to Ferguson Jenkins.
Author : David Workman
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781503240049
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A Fan's Guide to Umpiring written by David Workman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's an annual rite of passage. Every spring, baseball players of all ages launch a new season full of hits, runs, errors, and lots of life lessons playing the game they love. They hustle, they throw, they bust their tails to win. But what about the guys who call the games? Who are the umpires? Where do they come from? And why on Earth would anyone want to become one?Veteran umpire David Workman takes you through the story of the guys behind the masks, into the little known world of the men in blue - not the Major League guys, but the ones who work your son's games.In this unique exposé, you'll discover:* Who becomes an umpire and why* What it takes to get started and move up* Weird rules that even the best umpires get wrong* Why certain rules are different between high school, college, and pro* Baseball myths you thought were true but aren't* What umpires and coaches really talk about during arguments* Why umpires hate ejections* Funny stories and anecdotes from years behind the plate...and more!So pull up a chair because it's...Reader Up!
Author : Al Clark
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803254962
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Called Out But Safe written by Al Clark and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his thirty years as a professional umpire he took on some of baseball’s great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick Williams, while ejecting any number of the game’s elite—once tearing a hamstring in the process. He was the first Jewish umpire in American League history, and probably the first to eject his own father from the officials’ dressing room. But whatever Clark was doing—officiating at Nolan Ryan’s three hundredth win, Cal Ripken’s record breaker, or the “earthquake” World Series of 1989, or braving a labor dispute, an anti-Semitic tirade by a Cy Young Award winner, or a legal imbroglio—it makes for a good story. Called Out but Safe is Clark’s outspoken and often hilarious account of his life in baseball from umpire school through the highlights to the inglorious end of his stellar career. Not just a source of baseball history and lore, Clark’s book also affords a rare look at what life is like for someone who works for the Major Leagues’ other team.
Author : Jay Baum
Publisher : NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780809274765
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Umpiring Baseball written by Jay Baum and published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a complete guide to the rules and regulations of baseball and shows the aspiring umpire how to make correct calls and deal with difficult situations involving players and fans.
Author : Wayne Stewart
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602397937
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book You're the Umpire written by Wayne Stewart and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You're the umpire" tests your knowledge about the rules of Major League Baseball.
Author : Zach Rebackoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Unmasked written by Zach Rebackoff and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNMASKING THE "BROTHERHOOD" Whenever somebody learns that Zach Rebackoff (The Flying Birdman) was a professional baseball umpire, their reaction is a bare-all-teeth smile and a most frequently asked double-barreled question: "Really? Did you ever throw anyone out?" Ha! Ask the players and managers? They know he did! Bronx-born into an emigre Russian Jewish family in April 1951, Zach would be first a baseball Maverick, and then a Pirate. For example, there was the evening in the Dominican Republic when he called a forfeit against the home team, putting himself under the siege of 18,000 garbage-hurling fanáticos. Or the day in 1980 when future HOF''er Wade Boggs hung blame on him for losing the league batting title--by one percentage point. UNMASKED is for baseball enthusiasts and their insatiable desire to understand our national pastime''s law enforcement squads; the highs, the lows, the trials and tribulations, politics, backstabbing, and most especially, what goes on inside those quirky minds behind the mask, in particular, Zach''s mask; the one he wore on the field, and the one he wore, and still wears, off the field. In Zach''s opinion, many baseball fans visualize what it''s like being a professional umpire, embedded in the game''s speed, living up to the challenge, in real-time, with all of its attendant notoriety and cheers. They suspect umpiring is challenging but they don''t surely know. Of those who joined the pro umpiring ranks, Zach may be the most uncontainable and improbable character ever, which accounts for the unpredictable nature of the stories inside UNMASKED. In a myriad of voices, he captures baseball''s culture from, shall we dare say, a sagacious angle. Truly knowing umpires (those you know by name) is to know there are MLB umpires that have purposely unleashed indefensible acts of colleagues'' defamation, betrayal, and deceit--Zach tells you the who, what, and where. Baseball umpires, by the way, are a trendy subject. With the implementation of the replay and ultra-slow-mo, the TV''s cameras dissect each revolution of every pitch and numerous blogs focus solely on umpires'' statistics, ejections, tendencies, quotes, habits--the public''s peeking into one of the most intricate jobs on the planet have never been greater! Besides being a professional baseball umpire, Zach tripped, tap-danced, bull-rode, and sailed his way through a career that has encompassed published authorship (TOUGH CALLS C. Avon Books), TV talk show hosting, newspaper and magazine journalistic endeavors, and entrepreneurship. When the umpire supervisor who could make or break his career came through town to evaluate the crew, instead of bellying up to the bar for the ritualistic late-night back-slapping and that personal man-to-man connection, the Maverick would adjourn to his lady''s pad or retire to his hotel and a rendezvous with a fat joint. No brownie points scored. But then, unfortunately, he never did love the "brotherhood." Still, Zach eventually found himself surrounded by, and usually in an animated debate with baseball legends such as Don Mattingly, Cal Ripken, Wade Boggs, Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, Ron Darling, Felipe Alou, Tony Peña, Mookie Wilson... and so on. For those who accepted the Maverick, he offers praise. For those who attempted to sabotage his career, Zach''s words come down with the weight of a sledgehammer. In UNMASKED, Zach recounts a 1950''s Bronx childhood that gave way to a devastating life-altering football injury, which ended his aspirations for a baseball-playing career, leading to a relentless, against-huge-odds rise to the professional baseball diamond. How''d he do that? Or manifest any of these other improbable occurrences? Ah, patience, patience. In the memorable words of Andrea, who endured 25 years as Zach''s wife: "Where there''s a will, there''s a Zach."
Author : Texas Association Of Sports Officials
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982243701
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Baseball Umpires Manual written by Texas Association Of Sports Officials and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written BY Umpires...FOR Umpires. This is the definitive book for baseball umpires at the High School level and below. A complete manual covering Umpire Mechanics for 2, 3, and 4 umpires with illustrations and explanations for virtually every play and runner configuration.
Author : Steve Boga
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781449929060
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)
Download or read book How to Umpire Baseball and Softball written by Steve Boga and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Umpire Baseball and Softball is an insider's guide to the basic skills necessary to excel as an umpire. It is the product of Boga's countless discussions with partners, hours of field time, and much reflection. The book is designed to help both individual umpires and those charged with training umpires at all levels of baseball and softball.
Author : West Australian Baseball Umpires Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Umpire's Manual written by West Australian Baseball Umpires Association and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morris A. Shirts
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780806941080
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Call it Right! written by Morris A. Shirts and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides advice on umpiring in the Little League, with information on standards of dress and behavior, signals, positioning, division of responsibility, rules, and dangerous situations.
Author : Keith Law
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062942743
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The Inside Game written by Keith Law and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Keith Law, baseball writer for The Athletic and author of the acclaimed Smart Baseball, offers an era-spanning dissection of some of the best and worst decisions in modern baseball, explaining what motivated them, what can be learned from them, and how their legacy has shaped the game. For years, Daniel Kahneman’s iconic work of behavioral science Thinking Fast and Slow has been required reading in front offices across Major League Baseball. In this smart, incisive, and eye-opening book, Keith Law applies Kahneman’s ideas about decision making to the game itself. Baseball is a sport of decisions. Some are so small and routine they become the building blocks of the game itself—what pitch to throw or when to swing away. Others are so huge they dictate the future of franchises—when to make a strategic trade for a chance to win now, or when to offer a millions and a multi-year contract for a twenty-eight-year-old star. These decisions have long shaped the behavior of players, managers, and entire franchises. But as those choices have become more complex and data-driven, knowing what’s behind them has become key to understanding the sport. This fascinating, revelatory work explores as never before the essential question: What were they thinking? Combining behavioral science and interviews with executives, managers, and players, Keith Law analyzes baseball’s biggest decision making successes and failures, looking at how gambles and calculated risks of all sizes and scales have shaped the sport, and how the game’s ongoing data revolution is rewriting decades of accepted decision making. In the process, he explores questions that have long been debated, from whether throwing harder really increases a player’s risk of serious injury to whether teams actually “overvalue” trade prospects. Bringing his analytical and combative style to some of baseball’s longest running debates, Law deepens our knowledge of the sport in this entertaining work that is both fun and deeply informative.
Author : Harry Johnson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803275799
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Standing the Gaff written by Harry Johnson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry "Steamboat" Johnson brought to early baseball great integrity and a pugnacious style. Toughness?being able to "stand the gaff"?was essential during his long career afs an umpire. From 1909 to 1935 Johnson umpired in exhibition games andøminor leagues (except for the 1914 season in the National League) from Los Angeles to Toronto. When fans screamed "Kill the umpire!" he responded he'd rather die on a baseball field than anywhere else. With disarming directness and humor, Steamboat Johnson tells what it was like umpiring for various leagues (the wild Western was nicknamed "101 Ranch"), being on the road (lonely because umpires could not fraternize with players), and getting into all sorts of jams (he once took on Ty Cobb in a 1922 exhibition game between the Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals). "Standing the gaff" meant surviving the wrath of players?and of fans, who hurled insults and pop bottles. After a game, Steamboat would be escorted to his hotel by the police. Johnson instructs would-be umpires, answers questions from fans, and names the best players he ever saw. Until now, Standing the Gaff, originally published in 1935, has been hard to find. This Bison Book edition makes it available to buffs and social historians and those curious about baseball in its rowdy adolescence. In a new introduction, Larry R. Gerlach tells more about Steamboat's life.
