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Author: Ken Kaiser
Hardcover · April 1, 2003
304 Pages
FROM THE PUBLISHER:
"Two things nobody wants to grow up to be are an umpire and broke. Thanks to my career in baseball I got to be both."
For twenty-years as a major league umpire Ken Kaiser ignored the boos and swept the plate. And in his auto-bio-graphy-written with the co-author of Ron Luciano's classic bestseller The Umpire Strikes Back-he brings to life his adventures both on and off the field.
This is a hysterical story of baseball from the inside, fair to foul, balls to brawls, strikes to....strikes. From coming up in the minors, "I suspected I might have a problem when I turned on the lights and found my partner''s glass eye on the table," right through his years spent in the big leagues with stars like Reggie Jackson, Mark McGwire and Nolan Ryan, Kaiser comes across as a one-of-a-kind, larger-than-his-chest-protector, kind of "blue."
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After calling balls, strikes, and outs more than three thousand major-league games, umpire Ken Kaiser finally called it a career.
From the first day he hit a minor-league catcher with a pool stick to the fateful day baseball called him out on a strike, Kaiser was one of the game's most popular and colorful characters.
And in this autobiography Kaiser brings to life his wild adventures from the pro-wrestling arena to the baseball diamond. |  |
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