Umpire Strikes Back
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553248463 (0553248464)
Publish date: September 1st 1984
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Ron Luciano tells of his experiences as an umpire in the minors and the American League then as a color analyst with the Game of the Week. I have had this on my shelves for 39 years. I kept saying I was going to get to it. I have now finally gotten to it. And am I glad I did! It was so funny as he...
This is entertaining and illuminating but certainly only on one level. Luciano excels at that traditional, yuk-yuk self-deprecating American humour of the pre-Lenny Bruce era that offends absolutely no one. He has numerous anecdotes which are mildly amusing and certainly informative about particular...