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    The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!: The Game as Umpires See It
    The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!: The Game as Umpires See It
    The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!: The Game as Umpires See It
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    The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!: The Game as Umpires See It

    By Lee Gutkind

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    A fascinating and revealing look inside the lives of umpires, from the godfather of creative nonfiction
    In 1974, Lee Gutkind walked into Shea Stadium, then home of the New York Mets, with an unusual proposal. He wanted to chronicle one of the least celebrated cadres in professional baseball: the umpires. Gutkind spent one exhilarating season traveling with the officiating crew he found that day—Doug Harvey, Nick Colosi, Harry Wendelstedt, and Art Williams, the first African American umpire in National League history. Gutkind’s narrative reveals much about the peculiarities of the men charged with the “thankless and impossible task of invoking order”—their work ethic, fallibility, and perhaps most strikingly, their pride.
    As resonant today as when it was first published, The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand! is an engrossing story of the men who work on one of the nation’s biggest stages, their victories and their failures, and their inner worlds that are rarely—if ever—explored.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMar 11, 2014
    ISBN9781480471368
    The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!: The Game as Umpires See It
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    Lee Gutkind

    LEE GUTKIND is the author and editor of more than thirty books, including You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction and Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather, and the award-winning Many Sleepless Nights: The World of Organ Transplantation. He has appeared on many national radio and televisions shows, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Good Morning America, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and at Arizona State University.

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