As They See 'Em

Stellar book. Well-written and fascinating. Weber attended the Jim Evans umpiring school in Florida and did extensive interviewing and research in an effort to bring fans inside the life and mind of a Major League umpire. I don't think reading this book will get anyone to go easier on umpires in the heat of the moment, but it will certainly help you after the fact when you think about what it is they do, exactly, without help from slo-mo television cameras and countless replays of every moment of the game, and what they have to go through to get this far. Great book.