Título: The Umpire Is Out
Autor: Dale Scott
Sinopse: Dale Scotts career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, working in every Major League Baseball stadium, and interacting with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and hundreds of players, from future Hall of Famers to one-game wonders. Scott has enough stories about his career on the field to fill a dozen books, and there are plenty of those stories here. Hes not interested in settling scores, but throughout the book hes honest about managers and players, some of whom werent always perfect gentlemen. But what makes Scotts book truly different is his unique perspective as the only umpire in the history of professional baseball to come out as gay during his career. Granted, that was after decades of remaining in the closet, and Scott writes vividly and movingly about having to play the game: maintaining a facade of straightness while privately becoming his true self and building a lasting relationship with his future husband. He navigated this obstacle course at a time when his MLB career was just taking offand when North America was consumed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Scotts story isnt only about his leading a sort of double life, then opening himself up to the world and discovering a new generosity of spirit. Its also a baseball story, filled with insights and memorable anecdotes that come so naturally from someone who spent decades among the worlds greatest baseball players, managers, and games. Scotts story is fascinating both for his umpiring career and for his being a pioneer for LGBTQ people within baseball and across sports.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Umpire Is Out”, de Dale Scott, publicado pela editora U of Nebraska Press, em 2022 e com 320 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: U of Nebraska Press
Páginas: 320
Ano: 2022
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1496232054
ISBN13: 9781496232052
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora U of Nebraska Press oferecem uma imersão em narrativas que exploram momentos históricos e culturais complexos, muitas vezes a partir de perspectivas pouco convencionais, como relatos de testemunhas ou análises políticas detalhadas. A experiência de leitura varia entre textos densos e reflexivos, que dialogam com áreas como história, política e estudos culturais, e obras que privilegiam o relato biográfico ou etnográfico. O tom oscila entre o analítico e o narrativo, com algumas obras apresentando um ritmo mais investigativo e outras, uma abordagem mais contemplativa e descritiva. O catálogo sugere um interesse por temas como conflitos sociais, direitos civis, política internacional e experiências indígenas, com atenção a vozes e eventos que desafiam narrativas tradicionais.
