The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480471368

<DIV><DIV><b>A fascinating and revealing look inside the lives of umpires, from the godfather of creative nonfiction</b></div><DIV><BR>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&mdash;Doug Harvey, Nick Colosi, Harry Wendelstedt, and Art Williams, the first African American umpire in National League history. Gutkind&rsquo;s narrative reveals much about the peculiarities of the men charged with the &ldquo;thankless and impossible task of invoking order&rdquo;&mdash;their work ethic, fallibility, and perhaps most strikingly, their pride.</div><DIV><BR>As resonant today as when it was first published,&#160;<i>The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!&#160;</i>is an engrossing story of the men who work on one of the nation&rsquo;s biggest stages, their victories and their failures, and their inner worlds that are rarely&mdash;if ever&mdash;explored.</div><DIV></div></div>