Al Clark: “Nobody grows up wanting to be an umpire”
By Stuart M. Katz, correspondent When he was growing up in Trenton, N.J., Al Clark’s family thought he might become a rabbi. They couldn’t have imagined that he instead would spend more than 25 years on Major League Baseball fields as the American League’s first Jewish umpire. From 1976 to 2001, Clark had a bird’s eye…