The Umpire Is Out

Calling the Game and Living My True Self

Dale Scott, Rob Neyer (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2022
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3044-7 (ISBN)

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Dale Scott’s career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, interacting with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and hundreds of players. Scott has enough stories about his career on the field to fill a dozen books, but what makes Scott’s book truly different is his unique perspective as the only umpire in the history of professional baseball to come out as gay during his career, after decades of maintaining a public facade of straightness. He navigated this obstacle course at a time when his MLB career was just taking off-and when North America was consumed by the AIDS epidemic.

Scott’s story isn’t only about leading a double life, then opening himself up to the world and discovering a new generosity of spirit. It’s also a baseball story, filled with insights and memorable anecdotes that come so naturally from someone who spent decades among the world’s greatest baseball players, managers, and games. Scott’s story is fascinating both for his umpiring career and for his being a pioneer for LGBTQ people within baseball and across sports.

Dale Scott’s career as a Major League umpire included three World Series, three All-Star Games, six League Championship Series, twelve Division Series, and more than ninety postseason games. He lives in Palm Springs, California, with Michael, his husband, and their yellow Lab, Wylie. Rob Neyer serves as commissioner of the West Coast League and has written or cowritten seven books, including Power Ball: Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game. Billy Bean (1964–2024) was vice president and special assistant to the commissioner of Major League Baseball.

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Billy Bean
1. Nutcutters, Polebenders, and Shithouses
2. Eugene
3. Playing the Game
4. “You Were Terrible!”
5. “He’s That Blind SOB”
6. Only in the Dominican
7. Getting the Call
8. When Sparky Quit Chewing
9. “Mike, Your Mom Is Blasting Me”
10. Sophomore Slump
11. For the Last Time
12. “I Can Put Two and Two Together”
13. TK
14. Hardly the First
15. “What Do You Mean, Colorful?”
16. Nolan and George
17. Hello Again, Boss
18. Jeffrey Who?
19. A Long Way from Bradenton
20. “What Flavor Was the Kool-Aid?”
21. W.
22. Like a Human Blood Clot
23. “Hell Has Frozen Over”
24. “Hey, Lou, You Missed a Spot”
25. “I Am the Walrus”
26. Postseason from Hell
27. Get the Hell Out of the Way
28. From Frank’s Friendly to Jimmy Fallon
29. Flip
30. “I Can’t Believe This Is Happening Again”
31. No Complaints, No Regrets
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2022
Vorwort	Billy Bean
Zusatzinfo	25 photographs, 1 appendix, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4962-3044-2 / 1496230442
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3044-7 / 9781496230447
Zustand	Neuware