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They Called Me God / Called Out But Safe

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.)

Week of March 23, 2015

Releases for the week of March 23rd include THE ESCAPE, a continuation of David Baldacci's series featuring John Puller, a combat veteran and special agent with the U.S. Army whose newest case will force him to hunt down the most formidable and brilliant prey he has ever tracked: his own brother; THE ONE & ONLY by Emily Giffin, in which the comfortable world of 33-year-old Shea Rigsby is upended when an unexpected tragedy strikes her tight-knit community, and she begins to wonder if the life she has chosen is really enough for her; and A BROKEN HALLELUJAH, Liel Leibovitz's meditation on Leonard Cohen --- the singer, his music, and the ideas and beliefs at its core.