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The Detroit Tigers pitcher and veteran umpire share their respective views on the June 2, 2010 game that was entered into the record books with what the umpire believes was his erroneous call on the final out, tracing their career stories while imparting the significance of the game in their lives.
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"You might think everything that could have been said, replayed and revealed about that night has already been uttered, logged and exposed. You would, however, be as wrong as the unfortunate Mr. Joyce was when he decided that Cleveland shortstop Jason Donald had beaten first baseman Miguel Cabrera's toss to Galarraga on what would have been the Indians' 27th consecutive out." --Neal Rubin, The Detroit News
"Nobody's Perfect achieves the remarkable feat of taking us inside the heads of both the pitcher and the umpire at the moment of that call, and during everything leading up to it. Baseball players and officials pride themselves on appearing unreadable on the field but, in alternating chapters, Galarraga and Joyce reveal in their own words, with surprising candor, what was going on behind their opaque game faces. ... A thrilling, emotionally complex revisit to the legendary almost-perfect game of June 2, 2010, complete with the satisfying back story of the careers (and psychologies) of the pitcher and the umpire who shared a first-base call that made history." --John McFarland, Shelf Awareness "Captivating ... [It reads] like a great summer novel." --Mark Newman, MLB.com "Inspiring." --Spitball Magazine "In the Big Events category, there was just one last year that had everyone talking: the perfect game spoiled by an ump's blown call on what would have been the final out. But the response of the ump, Jim Joyce, and the pitcher, Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga, thrust them both in to a small category of sports that actually ennobles the human race . ... Joyce's abject admission of a mistake and Galarraga's grace in accepting a near-miss with destiny made character the big sinner, detailed in their collaboration, with Daniel Paisner, in Nobody's Perfect: Two Men, One Call, and a Game for Baseball History. " --Publishers Weekly, "PW's Top Ten Sports Books" for 2011 "A masterpiece."--Steve Kettman, The Huffington PostAbout the Author
Armando Galarraga is a pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He finished third in balloting for American League Rookie of the Year in 2008. Jim Joyce has been an umpire in the major leagues for more than twenty years. Daniel Paisner is a "New York Times" best-selling writer and collaborator on dozens of books, including "On the Line" with tennis great Serena Williams. He is also the author of "The Ball: Mark McGwire s 70th Home Run Ball and the Marketing of the American Dream.""
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Paperback. Condition: Good. The Detroit Tigers, an umpire, a pitcher, and a mistake--one of the "classic, human, baseball stories" (Ken Burns, creator of the PBS mini-series Baseball). The perfect game is one of the rarest accomplishments in sports. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in over 130 years, it has happened only twenty times. On June 2, 2010, Armando Galarraga threw baseball's twenty-first. Except that's not how it entered the record books. That's because Jim Joyce, voted the best umpire in the game in 2010 and 2011, missed the call on the final out. But rather than throwing a tantrum, Galarraga simply turned and smiled, went back to the mound, and finished the game. "Nobody's perfect," he said later in the locker room. "You might think everything that could have been said, replayed, and revealed about that night has already been uttered, logged, and exposed. You would, however, be as wrong as the unfortunate Mr. Joyce" (The Detroit News). In Nobody's Perfect, Galarraga and Joyce come together to tell the personal story of a remarkable game that will live forever in baseball lore, and to trace their fascinating lives in sports. The result is "a masterpiece", an absorbing insider's look at two careers in baseball, a tremendous achievement, and an enduring moment of pure grace and sportsmanship (The Huffington Post). Seller Inventory # 00107884739
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