You're the Umpire: Mind-Boggling Questions to Test Your

You're the Umpire: Mind-Boggling Questions to Test Your Baseball Knowledge

Calling all Yankee and Red Sox fans! Dodgers and Giants fans! Blue Jays, White Sox, and Cubs fans! Fans everywhere! Do you have what it takes to be Major League umpire? Well, now you can test your baseball knowledge.

Divided into three sections, this unusual handbook, now in its third edition, offers Routine Calls, which deal with scenarios and rules that typically come up in games and deal with clear-cut rulesâ€”fair and foul, strike zone questions, and the like.

The next section, Basic Situations, deals with umpiring matters and rules that are just a bit more unusual or, for the casual fan, obscure. Interference and obstruction calls, for example, donâ€™t come up too often, but they remain standard stuff involving rules that umps and many fans know quite well.

In the final section, Obscure Rules and Situations, you will be presented with what many baseball people call â€œknottyâ€ problems. Here, you will be asked questions involving the complex infield fly rule and other arcane matters. This section, then, is the ultimate test of your umpiring skills and knowledge.

Most of the situations in Youâ€™re the Umpire come from real games, such as the time a fastball from Randy Johnson killed a bird in flight and what the umps did regarding that pitch, but some scenarios are made up to illustrate specific points or rules. Test yourself against your friends or against the iconic baseball rulebook. Itâ€™s a challenge and itâ€™s fun.
Country USA
Brand Skyhorse
Manufacturer Skyhorse
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781510739307
ReleaseDate 2019-07-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781510739307

Country	USA
Brand	Skyhorse
Manufacturer	Skyhorse
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781510739307
ReleaseDate	2019-07-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781510739307

You're the Umpire: Mind-Boggling Questions to Test Your Baseball Knowledge