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Lion of the League

Bob Emslie and the Evolution of the Baseball Umpire

By: Larry R. Gerlach

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Lion of the League

Bob Emslie and the Evolution of the Baseball Umpire

By: Larry R. Gerlach

Robert Dean Emslie spent fifty-six of his eighty-four years in professional baseball, eight as a player and forty-nine as an umpire. His thirty-five seasons as a National League umpire included the three most contentious decades umpires ever faced, the 1890 to 1920 era, when the game transitioned from amateur to professional sport.

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U of Nebraska Press

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149623765X

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9781496237651

The Men in Blue

Conversations with Umpires

By: Larry R. Gerlach

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The Men in Blue

Conversations with Umpires

By: Larry R. Gerlach

The philosopher Jacques Barzun thought that "whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." And whoever wants to know baseball had better learn about umpires. As Larry Gerlach points out in The Men in Blue, these arbiters transform competitive chaos into organized sport. They make it possible to "play ball," but nobody loves them. Considering the abuse meted out by fans and players, why would any sane person want to be an umpire? Many reasons emerge in conversations with a dozen former major league arbiters. While nobody loves them, they love the game. Gerlach has elicited entertaining stories from these figures under fire--about their lonely travels, their dealings with umpire baiters, battles for unionization, breaking through the color line, and much more. From Beans Reardon, who came up to the National League in 1926, to Ed Sudol, who retired in 1977, here is a witty and telling portrait of baseball from the boisterous Golden Age to the Jet Age of Instant Replay.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803270453

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9780803270459

The Men in Blue

Conversations with Umpires

By: Larry R. Gerlach

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Conversations with Umpires

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Lion of the League

Bob Emslie and the Evolution of the Baseball Umpire

By: Larry R. Gerlach

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Bob Emslie and the Evolution of the Baseball Umpire

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Robert Dean Emslie (1859–1943) spent fifty-six of his eighty-four years in professional baseball—eight as a player and forty-nine as an umpire. When arm problems ended his career as a Major League pitcher, he turned to umpiring, serving in that capacity for thirty-five seasons, then as an umpire supervisor for thirteen years. His longevity is all the more remarkable considering he toiled during the three most contentious and difficult decades umpires ever faced: the years from 1890 to 1920, when baseball transitioned from amateur to professional sport and from regional business to commercial entertainment industry. Emslie endured the rough-and-tumble umpire-baiting 1890s, the Deadball era, injuries from thrown and batted balls, physical and verbal assaults from players and fans, and criticism in the press. Among his most notable games, he called four no-hitters and worked as the base umpire in the famous Merkle’s Boner game between the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs at the Polo Grounds in 1908. He often clashed with Giants manager John McGraw, who nicknamed him “Blind Bob.” Yet he was widely praised by players and his peers. Honus Wagner, the great Pittsburgh shortstop, ranked Emslie the best National League umpire he had seen during his twenty-year career. Umpires Bill McGowan and Billy Evans respectively regarded him as “the greatest base umpire of all time” and “one of the greatest umpires the game ever produced.” Emslie was also the acknowledged master of baseball’s rules such that National League presidents regularly consulted with him on controversial calls and protests. Emslie accepted a position as the chief of National League umpires, serving as an adviser to the National League president. Lion of the League is the biography of an umpire whose career spanned the formative years of modern baseball.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496239997

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9781496239990

Alma Richards

Olympian

By: Larry R. Gerlach

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Alma Richards

Olympian

By: Larry R. Gerlach

The story of America's most accomplished track and field athlete in the early twentieth century and the first Utahn and Mormon to win an Olympic gold medal

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291

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1607814919

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9781607814917

Larry L. King

A Writer's Life in Letters, Or, Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye

By: Larry L. King

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A Writer's Life in Letters, Or, Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye

By: Larry L. King

Larry L. Kings life story.

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TCU Press

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0875652034

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9780875652030

Larry Watkin

A Memoir of an American Man of Letters

By: Larry Watkin,Lawrence Edward Watkin

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Larry Watkin

A Memoir of an American Man of Letters

By: Larry Watkin,Lawrence Edward Watkin

From Death to Disney. Larry Watkin won the National Book Award in 1937 for his novel ON BORROWED TIME, about Death imprisoned in an apple tree. From there, after an adventurous stint in the US Navy, he joined the Disney studio, working alongside Walt Disney himself on live-action classics.

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Pulp Hero Press

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1683901274

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9781683901273

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