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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Larry R. GerlachPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9781496237651ISBN 10: 149623765 Pages: 432 Publication Date: 01 May 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: From Gentleman Arbiter to Folk Villain 1. Grounding in Guelph 2. Coming of Age in London 3. Pitching for Pay 4. Curveball Artist 5. Comeback Trail 6. Learning to Call ’Em 7. Reaching the Majors 8. To the Bushes and Back 9. The Not-So-Gay Nineties 10. Standing the Gaff 11. Deadball Veteran 12. Dean of Umpires 13. Umpire Supervisor 14. Late Innings Epilogue: Lion of the League Notes IndexReviews“A handful of pioneering arbiters have won plaques in Cooperstown: Klem, O’Day, and Connolly. Bob Emslie is the grievous omission. Larry Gerlach is our game’s great expert on umpires and he tells Emslie’s story brilliantly while breathing life into baseball’s early days.”—John Thorn, official historian of Major League Baseball “Those who share my fascination with the history of baseball will enjoy this book. To those who share my fascination with the history of the profession of umpiring, this will become a sacred text. Thank you, Larry Gerlach. You took one of the forefathers of the game and brought him to life.”—Ted Barrett, rule analyst for the MLB Network and former Major League umpire, 1994–2022 “I’ve long felt that Bob Emslie, a trailblazing umpire and one of our cherished inductees, was worthy of a detailed biography, and Larry Gerlach is the perfect author for the project. He is a passionate baseball historian who has previously published fascinating work about the underappreciated men and women in blue. This book is another triumphant effort by Gerlach that offers many little-known anecdotes and details about a Canadian baseball legend that hasn’t been talked about nearly enough.”—Scott Crawford, director of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame “Bob Emslie never had it easy, but Larry Gerlach has captured the tragedy along with the glorious essence of this extraordinary baseball man’s career of sixty plus years. From the hotbed of 1870s baseball in southwestern Ontario, Emslie’s trail included an eventual, though brief, Major League pitching prowess, ultimately surpassed by on-field umpiring for more than thirty years followed by front office oversight of the position. Gerlach’s prodigious research details the ways in which the umpire’s role evolved from a barely tolerated annoyance to a central place in the game’s lasting success.”—William Humber, Canada’s foremost baseball historian and a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame “A handful of pioneering arbiters have won plaques in Cooperstown: Klem, O’Day, and Connolly. Bob Emslie is the grievous omission. Larry Gerlach is our game’s great expert on umpires, and he tells Emslie’s story brilliantly while breathing life into baseball’s early days.”—John Thorn, official historian of Major League Baseball “Those who share my fascination with the history of baseball will enjoy this book. To those who share my fascination with the history of the profession of umpiring, this will become a sacred text. Thank you, Larry Gerlach. You took one of the forefathers of the game and brought him to life.”—Ted Barrett, rule analyst for the MLB Network and former Major League umpire, 1994–2022 “I’ve long felt that Bob Emslie, a trailblazing umpire and one of our cherished inductees, was worthy of a detailed biography, and Larry Gerlach is the perfect author for the project. He is a passionate baseball historian who has previously published fascinating work about the underappreciated men and women in blue. This book is another triumphant effort by Gerlach that offers many little-known anecdotes and details about a Canadian baseball legend that hasn’t been talked about nearly enough.”—Scott Crawford, director of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame “Bob Emslie never had it easy, but Larry Gerlach has captured the tragedy along with the glorious essence of this extraordinary baseball man’s career of sixty-plus years. From the hotbed of 1870s baseball in southwestern Ontario, Emslie’s trail included an eventual, though brief, Major League pitching prowess, ultimately surpassed by on-field umpiring for more than thirty years followed by front office oversight of the position. Gerlach’s prodigious research details the ways in which the umpire’s role evolved from a barely tolerated annoyance to a central place in the game’s lasting success.”—William Humber, Canada’s foremost baseball historian and a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame Author InformationLarry R. Gerlach is professor emeritus of history at the University of Utah and past president of the Society for American Baseball Research. He is the author of The Men in Blue: Conversations with Umpires (Bison Books, 1994), and coeditor of The SABR Book of Umpires and Umpiring. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |