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Center Field on Fire

An Umpire's Life with Pine tar Bats, Spitballs, and Corked Personalities
By:Dave Phillips; Rob Rains; Bob Costas
Publisher:Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Print ISBN:9781572435698
eText ISBN:9781623681395
Edition:0
Format:Reflowable

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Former MLB umpire Dave Phillips was at the center of some of baseball's most unforgettable moments—Comiskey's infamous Disco Demolition Night, Gaylord Perry's spitball ejection, Albert Belle's confiscated corked bat and George Brett's pine tar bat debacle—and he shares with baseball fans the untold stories behind those incidents and many others, giving baseball fans a complete perspective on the life of an umpire.

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