Introduction to Tissue Engineering

Overview

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 baseballOCOs great umpire baiters, such as Earl Weaver, Billy Martin, and Dick Williams, while ejecting any number of the gameOCOs eliteOCoonce 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 officialsOCO dressing room. But whatever Clark was doingOCoofficiating at Nolan RyanOCOs three hundredth win, Cal RipkenOCOs record breaker, or the OC earthquakeOCO World Series of 1989, or braving a labor dispute, an anti-Semitic tirade by a Cy Young Award winner, or a legal imbroglioOCoit makes for a good story.a"Called Out but Safe" is ClarkOCOs 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, ClarkOCOs book also affords a rare look at what life is like for someone who works for the Major LeaguesOCO other team.a a"

Details

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published

2014

Pages

198

Language

EN

Categories

Biography & Autobiography / General, Biography & Autobiography / Sports, HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism, HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference, Medical / Family & General Practice, MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine, MEDICAL / Osteopathy, MEDICAL / Atlases, MEDICAL / Essays, Science / Biotechnology, Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General, Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History

ISBN-13

9780803254978