Description Do you think you have what it takes to be a Major League umpire? Well, now you can Test Your Knowledge of the game with Wayne Stewart\'s You\'re the Umpire .
About the Author Wayne Stewart has been a professional sportswriter for more than thirty-five years and has authored thirty books, including Name that Ballplayer , You\'re the Ref , and The Little Giant Book of Basketball Facts ..
It\'s a challenge and it\'s fun.
Test yourself against Your friends or against the iconic Baseball rulebook.
Most of the situations in You\'re the Umpire come from real games, such as the time a fastball from Randy Johnson killed a bird in flight and what the umps did regarding that pitch, but some scenarios are made up to illustrate specific points or rules.
This section, then, is the ultimate Test of Your umpiring skills and knowledge.
Here, you will be asked Questions involving the complex infield fly rule and other arcane matters.
In the final section, Obscure Rules and Situations, you will be presented with what many Baseball people call "knotty" problems.
Interference and obstruction calls, for example, don\'t come up too often, but they remain standard stuff involving rules that umps and many fans know quite well.
The next section, Basic Situations, deals with umpiring matters and rules that are just a bit more unusual or, for the casual fan, obscure.
Divided into three sections, this unusual handbook, now in its third edition, offers Routine Calls, which deal with scenarios and rules that typically come up in games and deal with clear-cut rules--fair and foul, strike zone questions, and the like.
Description Do you think you have what it takes to be a Major League umpire? Well, now you can Test Your Knowledge of the game with Wayne Stewart\'s You\'re the Umpire
