Lion of the League : Bob Emslie and the Evolution of the Baseball Umpire

Robert Dean Emslie spent fifty-six of his eighty-four years in professional baseball, eight as a player and forty-nine as an umpire. His thirty-five seasons as a National League umpire included the three most contentious decades umpires ever faced, the 1890 to 1920 era, when the game transitioned from amateur to professional sport.

• | Author: Larry R. Gerlach
• | Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2024
• | Number of Pages: 432 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 149623765X
• | ISBN-13: 9781496237651