Isn’t it always the way? We haven’t had a mainstream book about umpiring since Bruce Weber’s AS THEY SEE ’EM: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires in 2009. Now we have two: THEY CALLED ME GOD: The Best Umpire Who Ever Lived and CALLED OUT BUT SAFE: A Baseball Umpire’s Journey, both written by veteran arbiters with the assistance of equally veteran sportswriters. (To be accurate, Weber was not a professional ump; rather, he was an embedded journalist going through the rigors of preparation for the job.)
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