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Al Clark

Biography

Al Clark

Al Clark was a professional umpire for 30 years, working more than 3,000 games, including two All-Star Games, seven playoff series, and two World Series.

Al Clark

Books by Al Clark

by Al Clark with Dan Schlossberg - Nonfiction, Sports

If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his 30 years as a professional umpire, he took on some of baseball’s great umpire baiters, while ejecting any number of the game’s elite. CALLED OUT BUT SAFE is Clark’s outspoken and often hilarious account of his life in baseball, from umpire school through the highlights to the inglorious end of his stellar career.