Behind the Mask: My double life in baseball
Dave Pallone and Alan Steinberg
Language: English
Published by Viking Penguin, New York, 1990
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: The Librarian's Books, Cranford, NJ, U.S.A.The Librarian's Books
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A Fair copy in a Good dust wrapper of a former library copy of a title which has ".a behind-the-scenes account of the players, owners, managers, and umpires in and around the game of baseball, and of the outlandish incidents, on and off the field, which the public never hears about." May have smoke smell. Lean to volume. Dust wrapper is not price clipped. Sunning to inside flaps and along top edging of dust wrapper. Wear to dust wrapper with smudging and scratching. Dust wrapper spine is sunned and has residue from a library spine label. Wear to page edgings on all sides with foxing and a library stamp in black ink along the top. Inside flaps and boards have tape marks where the dust wrapper was attached. Rear flyleaf was torn out, leaving small tears along the spine. Some pages are creased and have a small cut along the top edge. Sunning to pages. Includes 4 pages of illustrations in black & white. Dedication page has Library cataloger makings in black ballpoint. "Contents: Acknowledgments; Author's note; A bullet to the neck; The other me; Umpire development; Behind the mask; Head above the crowd; Getting the message across; Into the bigs; A scab's life; Scott; "How can you soar like an eagle when you work with turkeys?"; Footprints in the sand; Love your enemies; Going in and coming out; Steel nuts; "What is the problem now?"; The bad life; The Rose thing; Another Pallone incident; Saratoga Springs; Life after baseball; Afterword" "Summary:Dave Pallone, a National League umpire for ten years, attracted major public attention when Pete Rose shoved him in a 1988 Mets-Reds game, igniting one of the most controversial incidents in baseball history. This book is a revealing look at baseball through the eyes of an umpire with two unique perspectives on the national pastime: one, the man in blue, cursed by fans and players alike; and two, the stranger in a strange land - the gay sensibility in forbidden straight territory" "Description: x, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.". …
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- Title
- Behind the Mask: My double life in baseball
- Author
- Dave Pallone and Alan Steinberg
- Publisher
- Viking Penguin, New York
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670833126
- ISBN 13
- 9780670833122
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Biography, Sports
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The Librarian's Books
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