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The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand: The Game as Umpires See It
by
Lee Gutkind
To provide this uniqueon a plateau above most everyone else." Since the publication of this book in 1975, neither Harvey nor Wendelstedt have communicated with Gutkind, with Wendelstedt even denying that Gutkind traveled with the crew.
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
April 7th 1999
by Southern Illinois University Press
(first published 1975)
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You will never look at umpires, or even watch a Major League Baseball game, the same way again.
I've read a lot of baseball books and this is one of my favorites. It's written by one of the gurus of creative nonfiction.
I've read a lot of baseball books and this is one of my favorites. It's written by one of the gurus of creative nonfiction.
You can really see how hard it was to write this sort of book before the tech boom. Keeping mental notes and banging things out on a typewriter where it's hard to reflect on some of the lamer constructions and change them than it is nowadays. Gutkind's voice simply doesn't work for me. I'd have preferred a more straight-forward, journalistic approach, rather than what was written here. There's some good information here regarding insight behind the mind-set of umpires, but they are also sometime...more
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