George Will Column Praises Umpires

SethPDX

I ordered it a couple hours ago. I flipped through it in a bookstore and I think it will be very fun to read.

And there's a quiz on the back cover. I got it right without looking in the book. 😉

NCASAUmp

I'm pondering picking it up from Amazon. Only problem is I leave for a two-week vacation a week from now (Saturday), so I don't know if it will arrive. Might prove to be handy, though, especially considering it's a 15-hour trip, one-way.

ASA/NYSSOBLUE

NCASAUmp wrote
I'm pondering picking it up from Amazon. Only problem is I leave for a two-week vacation a week from now (Saturday), so I don't know if it will arrive. Might prove to be handy, though, especially considering it's a 15-hour trip, one-way.

I am spoiled - I always pay for the Amazon Prime each year - I get just about all of the 'free two day' shipping just like the 2.99 overnight, due to being within the one day zone of UPS... The $79 really pays for itself as I get enough crap from them in a year to make it worthwhile...especially at holiday time!

NCASAUmp

ASA/NYSSOBLUE wrote
I am spoiled - I always pay for the Amazon Prime each year - I get just about all of the 'free two day' shipping just like the 2.99 overnight, due to being within the one day zone of UPS... The $79 really pays for itself as I get enough crap from them in a year to make it worthwhile...especially at holiday time!

Thanks! I have stock in Amazon. 🙂

NCASAUmp

Picked up the book before heading to Argentina and read a lot of it on the plane. Definitely a must-read for any umpire at any level. I can actually see a lot of myself from when I first started umpiring in some of these stories.

HugoTafurst

I'll add my enthusiastic recommendation.

SethPDX

I finished it in two days. Lots of great stuff in there.

HugoTafurst

At the time I ordered As We See EM I ordered a few other used books about Umpiring.

Yesterday, I started Please Don't Kill the Umpire by John Massaro.
After reading the Preface and 1st Chapter, I'm not impressed and pretty disappointed. If it gets better, I'll revise this post. If it doesn't, I may not finish the book....:mad:

SethPDX

I ordered The Best Seat In Baseball, But You Have to Stand, and I'm about a third of the way through it. It's an entertaining book for me because it shows how different it was to umpire in the 70s (a lot more guys were breaking ribs and collarbones before the hard shell CP), but also how some things have stayed the same (the players and coaches complain constantly).

HugoTafurst

SethPDX wrote
I ordered The Best Seat In Baseball, But You Have to Stand, and I'm about a third of the way through it. It's an entertaining book for me because it shows how different it was to umpire in the 70s (a lot more guys were breaking ribs and collarbones before the hard shell CP), but also how some things have stayed the same (the players and coaches complain constantly).

I ordered that one, too. Haven't gotten to it yet...