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The incredible memoir from the man voted one of the "Best Umpires of All Time" by the Society of American Baseball Research—filled with more than three decades of fascinating baseball stories. Doug Harvey was a California farm boy, a high school athlete who nevertheless knew that what he really wanted was to become an unsung hero—a major league umpire. Working his way through the minor leagues, earning three hundred dollars a month, he survived just about everything, even riots in stadiums in Puerto Rico. And while players and other umps hit the bars at night, Harvey memorized the rule book. In 1962, he broke into the big leagues and was soon listening to rookie Pete Rose worrying that he would be cut by the Reds and laying down the law with managers such as Tommy Lasorda and Joe Torre. This colorful memoir takes you behind the plate for some of baseball's most memorable moments, including Roberto Clemente's three thousandth and final hit; the heroic three-and-two pinch-hit home run by Kirk Gibson in the '88 World Series; and the nail-biting excitement of the '68 World Series. But beyond the drama, Harvey turned umpiring into an art. He was a man so respected, whose calls were so

Who reads They Called Me God : The Best Umpire Who Ever Lived?

Author

Doug Harvey and Peter Golenbock

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476748788

Category

biography

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Memoir

Rating

3.34 / 5 (97 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13