If an umpire could steal the show in a Major League game, Al Clark might well have been the one to do it. Tough but fair, in his 30 years as a professional umpire, he took on some of baseball’s great umpire baiters, while ejecting any number of the game’s elite. CALLED OUT BUT SAFE is Clark’s outspoken and often hilarious account of his life in baseball, from umpire school through the highlights to the inglorious end of his stellar career.