THE BEST SEAT IN BASEBALL, BUT YOU HAVE TO STAND

To provide this unique--and perhaps controversial--inside look at major league baseball, Lee spent the 1974 season traveling with a crew of National League Umpires, immersing himself with these unique and faceless arbiters of America's national past-time. The result is an honest, realistic and insightful study of the private and professional world of major league umpires: their prejudices and petty biases, their unbending pride in their performance, their perspectives on the game and their bitter criticism of the abuse often directed at their profession and their conduct. As relevent today as it was in 1974, this illustrated chronicle shows how little has changed in the lives and duties of umpires.