They Called Me God: The Best Umpire Who Ever Lived

The incredible memoir from the man voted one of the "Best Umpires of All Time" by the Society of American Baseball Research-filled with more than three decades of fascinating baseball stories.

Doug Harvey was a California farm boy, a high school athlete who nevertheless knew that what he really wanted was to become an unsung hero-a major league umpire. Working his way through the minor leagues, earning three hundred dollars a month, he survived just about everything, even riots in stadiums i...