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The Umpire Is Out - Calling the Game and Living My True Self (Hardcover)
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The Umpire Is Out - Calling the Game and Living My True Self (Hardcover)
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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,
working in every Major League Baseball stadium, and interacting
with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and
hundreds of players, from future Hall of Famers to one-game
wonders. Scott has enough stories about his career on the field to
fill a dozen books, and there are plenty of those stories here.
He's not interested in settling scores, but throughout the book
he's honest about managers and players, some of whom weren't always
perfect gentlemen. 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.
Granted, that was after decades of remaining in the closet, and
Scott writes vividly and movingly about having to "play the game":
maintaining a facade of straightness while privately becoming his
true self and building a lasting relationship with his future
husband. He navigated this obstacle course at a time when his MLB
career was just taking off-and when North America was consumed by
the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Scott's story isn't only about his leading a
sort of 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.
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