The Good Call, Bad Call Handbook

You hear them saying: GOOD CALL! and BAD CALL!

Sometimes you even hear both at once! Who’s right? Who’s wrong? Whether it’s a rules interpretation or a judgment call, there are lots of times what happens on the field doesn’t make sense in the stands.

Baseball rules literacy (BRL) is poor even among fans, and worse among parents who are only at the ballpark because Johnny’s too young to drive. That’s because baseball rule books are BORING. The Good Call, Bad Call Handbook: 101 Questions You’d Like to Ask the Umpire is anything but.

Patrick Sullivan umpired at every level of amateur baseball, from T-ball to college, for over 40 years. He’s heard a lot of talk on, or from, the far side of the backstop. The Good Call, Bad Call Handbook is based on actual conversations with fans away from the ballpark, questions heard through the fence, and fans heard talking to each other who sound
as wise as owls but whose actual BRL isn’t worth a hoot.

In the years since his first draft, every single baseball call that generated controversy in media or online is something you would have already known the right and wrong of…if you had read this book!

And yes: you will GET the Infield Fly Rule!