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Coach
- Lessons on the Game of Life
- Written by: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 57 mins
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There was a turning point in Michael Lewis' life, in a baseball game when he was 14 years old....
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love it- the world needs more coaches like this
- By James on 2019-08-11
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The Baseball Codes
- Written by: Jason Turbow, Michael Duca
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize....
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Great book!!
- By Craig Nugent on 2018-08-22
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The Phenomenon
- Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch That Changed My Life
- Written by: Rick Ankiel
- Narrated by: Rick Ankiel
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it. The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch - not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning....
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Satchel
- The Life and Times of an American Legend
- Written by: Larry Tye
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige....
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Moneyball
- The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- Written by: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Moneyball reveals a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball.....
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I'm a slut for stats
- By Eric Cruickshank on 2020-08-16
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The Arm
- Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Thing in Sports
- Written by: Jeff Passan
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Yahoo's lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports - the pitching arm....
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Coach
- Lessons on the Game of Life
- Written by: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 57 mins
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There was a turning point in Michael Lewis' life, in a baseball game when he was 14 years old....
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love it- the world needs more coaches like this
- By James on 2019-08-11
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The Baseball Codes
- Written by: Jason Turbow, Michael Duca
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Everyone knows that baseball is a game of intricate regulations, but it turns out to be even more complicated than we realize....
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Great book!!
- By Craig Nugent on 2018-08-22
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The Phenomenon
- Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch That Changed My Life
- Written by: Rick Ankiel
- Narrated by: Rick Ankiel
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it. The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch - not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning....
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Satchel
- The Life and Times of an American Legend
- Written by: Larry Tye
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige....
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Moneyball
- The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- Written by: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Moneyball reveals a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball.....
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I'm a slut for stats
- By Eric Cruickshank on 2020-08-16
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The Arm
- Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Thing in Sports
- Written by: Jeff Passan
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Yahoo's lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports - the pitching arm....
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The Captain
- The Journey of Derek Jeter
- Written by: Ian O'Connor
- Narrated by: Nick Pollifrone
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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Every spring, Little Leaguers across the country mimic his stance and squabble over the right to wear his number, 2, the next number to be retired by the world’s most famous ball team. Derek Jeter is their hero....
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Disappointed
- By Kindle Customer on 2023-05-08
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Why We Love Baseball
- A History in 50 Moments
- Written by: Joe Posnanski
- Narrated by: Joe Posnanski, Ellen Adair
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays’s catch, Babe Ruth’s called shot, and Kirk Gibson’s limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters....
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Calico Joe
- Written by: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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It’s the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone has ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzles Chicago Cubs fans as he hits home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shatters all rookie records....
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Surprised
- By Koree on 2018-05-05
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Wherever I Wind Up
- My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
- Written by: R. A. Dickey, Wayne Coffey
- Narrated by: Ben Hunter
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R. A. Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseball insight in this memoir about his unlikely journey to the big leagues....
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The Baseball 100
- Written by: Joe Posnanski
- Narrated by: Cary Hite
- Length: 30 hrs and 46 mins
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Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 greatest players....
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Great book
- By Francois Paquet on 2023-09-05
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Gibby
- Tales of a Baseball Lifer
- Written by: John Gibbons, Greg Oliver, Josh Donaldson - foreword
- Narrated by: John Gibbons
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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In his memoir, Gibby shares the story: an on-field career that didn't pan out, but a managing career that did . . . eventually....
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Excellent book
- By Anonymous User on 2023-09-01
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A Face in the Crowd
- Written by: Stephen King, Stewart O'Nan
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball....
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The Bad Guys Won
- A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform - and Maybe the Best
- Written by: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrated by: Jeff Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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It was 1986, and the New York Mets won 108 regular-season games and the World Series, capturing the hearts (and other assorted body parts) of fans everywhere....
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The New York Game
- Baseball and the Rise of a New City
- Written by: Kevin Baker
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
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A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten heroes, spanning the game’s founding to the early 1940s....
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After the Miracle
- The Lasting Brotherhood of the '69 Mets
- Written by: Art Shamsky, Erik Sherman
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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The inside account of an iconic team in baseball history: the 1969 New York Mets - a consistently last-place team that turned it all around in just one season - told by ’69 Mets outfielder Art Shamsky, Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, and other teammates....
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Wait Till Next Year
- A Memoir
- Written by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Wait Till Next Yearis the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s....
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Ty Cobb
- A Terrible Beauty
- Written by: Charles Leerhsen
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
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Finally - a fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb....
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Charles sets the rumors straight!
- By Tabitha B on 2018-02-05
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Hello, Friends!
- Stories from My Life and Blue Jays Baseball
- Written by: Jerry Howarth
- Narrated by: Jerry Howarth
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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An honest memoir about life, family, and baseball from the longtime, legendary Toronto Blue Jays radio broadcaster....
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A wonderful listen.
- By K from K on 2023-07-02
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House of Nails
- A Memoir of Life on the Edge
- Written by: Lenny Dykstra
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Lenny Dykstra spins a tragicomic tale of Shakespearean proportions - a relentlessly entertaining American epic that careens between the heights and the abyss....
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
- 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
- Written by: Jonathan Mahler
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods....
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The Last of His Kind
- Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness
- Written by: Andy McCullough
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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More than any baseball player of his generation, Clayton Kershaw has embodied the burden of athletic greatness, the prizes and perils that await those who strive for it all....
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Ball Four
- The Final Pitch
- Written by: Jim Bouton
- Narrated by: Jim Bouton
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
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When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world....
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An amazing novel just on its own
- By steven on 2024-01-31
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The MVP Machine
- How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
- Written by: Ben Lindbergh, Travis Sawchik
- Narrated by: Josh Hurley
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
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Instead of out-drafting, out-signing, and out-trading their rivals, baseball's best minds have turned to out-developing opponents, gaining greater edges than ever by perfecting prospects and eking extra runs out of older athletes who were once written off....
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Very Cool. A Revolutionary Approach.
- By Jake L.S. on 2020-05-17
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Injured to Elite
- A Guide to Empowering Yourself to Transform Your Life After Injury
- Written by: Dr. David Meyer DPT
- Narrated by: David Meyer
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Instead of relying on hand-holding by costly medical or performance professionals, Dr. David Meyer tells you how to save you time, money, agony, and, most importantly, to empower you to utilize a negative physical challenge as a massive opportunity to retrain your mind, body, and spirit....
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Charlie Hustle
- The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
- Written by: Keith O'Brien
- Narrated by: Ellen Adair, Keith O'Brien
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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A compelling work of narrative nonfiction, Charlie Hustle chronicles the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century....
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The Model Thinker
- What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
- Written by: Scott E. Page
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja....
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Great Baseball Writing
- Written by: Editors of Sports Illustrated
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 27 hrs and 2 mins
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When Sports Illustrated was launched in 1954, baseball was, indisputable, the national pastime, its stars America's epic heroes, its rivalries the era's mythology....
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
- Written by: Tyler Kepner
- Narrated by: Tyler Kepner
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than 300 people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today....
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Amazing Breakdown from Past to Present
- By Jake L.S. on 2019-06-20
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Talking to GOATs
- The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard
- Written by: Jim Gray
- Narrated by: Tom Brady, Jim Gray, Carol Burnett, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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In Talking to GOATs, award-winning broadcaster Jim Gray looks back at his four decades of sports reporting from the unparalleled perspective of one of the world’s most respected and skilled interviewers....
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Fun & Enlightening
- By Anonymous User on 2020-12-06
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Baseball: The Movie
- Written by: Noah Gittell
- Narrated by: Noah Gittell
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea.
Written by: Noah Gittell
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The Gas and Flame Men
- Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service During World War I
- Written by: Jim Leeke
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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The Gas and Flame Men explores how these famous baseball men, along with an eclectic mix of polo players, collegiate baseball and football stars, professors, architects, and prominent social figures all came together in the Chemical Warfare Service. Jim Leeke examines their service and its long-term effects on their physical and mental health-and on Major League Baseball and the world of sports.
Written by: Jim Leeke
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My Mets Bible
- Scoring 30 Years of Baseball Fandom
- Written by: Evan Roberts
- Narrated by: Evan Roberts
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Childhood for Evan Roberts was defined by outings to the old Shea Stadium with his father, always with a scorebook in hand. What began as a gameday ritual replete with misspelled player names and scrawled symbols turned into an obsession with scoring every game he watched, one which persisted as Roberts rose through the ranks at WFAN. Taken together, those scorebooks form a living, breathing Mets diary spanning 30 years of thrilling—and, at times, tortured—fandom. My Mets Bible is an exercise in memory and nostalgia, and a meditation on the things that stick with us as sports fans.
Written by: Evan Roberts
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The Last of His Kind
- Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness
- Written by: Andy McCullough
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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More than any baseball player of his generation, Clayton Kershaw has embodied the burden of athletic greatness, the prizes and perils that await those who strive for it all. He is a three-time Cy Young award winner, the first pitcher to win National League MVP since Bob Gibson, and a surefire, first-ballot Hall of Famer. Many of his peers consider him the greatest pitcher to ever climb atop a big-league mound.
Written by: Andy McCullough
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Under Jackie's Shadow
- Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind
- Written by: Mitchell Nathanson
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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The stories of thirteen Black Minor League baseball players during the post-Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind even as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progressiveness.
Written by: Mitchell Nathanson
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Baseball's Endangered Species
- Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
- Written by: Lee Lowenfish
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Scouting has been called pro baseball’s personalized way of renewing itself from year to year and a pathway to the game’s past. It takes a very special person to be a baseball scout: normal family life is out of the question because travel is a constant companion. Scouts have the difficult task of not only discovering and signing new players but envisioning the trajectory of raw talent into the future. But the place of the traditional scout has become increasingly dire.
Written by: Lee Lowenfish
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Baseball: The Movie
- Written by: Noah Gittell
- Narrated by: Noah Gittell
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal medium to canonize this aspirational idea.
Written by: Noah Gittell
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The Gas and Flame Men
- Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service During World War I
- Written by: Jim Leeke
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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The Gas and Flame Men explores how these famous baseball men, along with an eclectic mix of polo players, collegiate baseball and football stars, professors, architects, and prominent social figures all came together in the Chemical Warfare Service. Jim Leeke examines their service and its long-term effects on their physical and mental health-and on Major League Baseball and the world of sports.
Written by: Jim Leeke
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My Mets Bible
- Scoring 30 Years of Baseball Fandom
- Written by: Evan Roberts
- Narrated by: Evan Roberts
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Childhood for Evan Roberts was defined by outings to the old Shea Stadium with his father, always with a scorebook in hand. What began as a gameday ritual replete with misspelled player names and scrawled symbols turned into an obsession with scoring every game he watched, one which persisted as Roberts rose through the ranks at WFAN. Taken together, those scorebooks form a living, breathing Mets diary spanning 30 years of thrilling—and, at times, tortured—fandom. My Mets Bible is an exercise in memory and nostalgia, and a meditation on the things that stick with us as sports fans.
Written by: Evan Roberts
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The Last of His Kind
- Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness
- Written by: Andy McCullough
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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More than any baseball player of his generation, Clayton Kershaw has embodied the burden of athletic greatness, the prizes and perils that await those who strive for it all. He is a three-time Cy Young award winner, the first pitcher to win National League MVP since Bob Gibson, and a surefire, first-ballot Hall of Famer. Many of his peers consider him the greatest pitcher to ever climb atop a big-league mound.
Written by: Andy McCullough
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Under Jackie's Shadow
- Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind
- Written by: Mitchell Nathanson
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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The stories of thirteen Black Minor League baseball players during the post-Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind even as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progressiveness.
Written by: Mitchell Nathanson
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Baseball's Endangered Species
- Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
- Written by: Lee Lowenfish
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Scouting has been called pro baseball’s personalized way of renewing itself from year to year and a pathway to the game’s past. It takes a very special person to be a baseball scout: normal family life is out of the question because travel is a constant companion. Scouts have the difficult task of not only discovering and signing new players but envisioning the trajectory of raw talent into the future. But the place of the traditional scout has become increasingly dire.
Written by: Lee Lowenfish
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Every Day Calendar of Baseball Trivia 2024
- Hardball Facts, History, and Finer Points of the Game
- Written by: Gary Adkins
- Narrated by: Graham Mack
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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This every-day baseball trivia book for 2024 is targeted for baseball fanatics of all ages who enjoy a daily trivia question about hardball. It contains one trivia question for each of the 366-days of the leap year, with answers following. The emphasis is entertainment and accuracy (each question and statement has been fact checked multiple times). Some baseball trivia fans have complained about getting just one trivia question for weekends, annoying for real fans.
Written by: Gary Adkins
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Baseball Fundamentals
- A Beginner's Guide to Mastering Baseball (Sports Fundamentals)
- Written by: Glenn D. Jefferson
- Narrated by: Alyssa Quintilone
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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"Baseball Fundamentals: A Beginner's Guide to Mastering Baseball" is an essential listen for anyone looking to dive into the world of baseball, whether you're a complete novice or a budding player. This comprehensive guide covers every aspect of the game, from the basic rules and equipment to advanced techniques for those ready to take their skills to the next level.
Written by: Glenn D. Jefferson
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Charlie Hustle
- The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
- Written by: Keith O'Brien
- Narrated by: Ellen Adair, Keith O'Brien
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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Pete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the same time, he was a working-class white guy from Cincinnati who made it; less talented than tough, and rough around the edges. He was everything that America wanted and needed him to be, the American dream personified, until he wasn’t. Charlie Hustle tells the full story of one of America’s most epic tragedies, the rise and fall of Pete Rose, one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
Written by: Keith O'Brien
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The New York Game
- Baseball and the Rise of a New City
- Written by: Kevin Baker
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
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Baseball is “the New York game” because the city is where the white lines were first drawn, where a bunt was first laid, and where the curve ball was first thrown. It’s also where the superstars first emerged, and where social progress in the sport was first made. With nuance and depth, historian Kevin Baker brings this all back to life: the games–World Series in 1905, 1919, 1932; the players–Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig; the coaches and managers–John McGraw, “Foxy Ned” Hanlon, Clark Griffith; and even the writers, reporters, and spectators.
Written by: Kevin Baker
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Baseball Heaven
- Up Close and Personal, What It Was Really Like in the Major Leagues
- Written by: Peter Golenbock
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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For fifty years, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has been interviewing some of the most fascinating figures in baseball. Their conversations are a journey back in time to the days of Ruth and Gehrig, Gehringer and Greenberg, Robinson and Reese, and Howard and Mantle, as they reflect on the sport's greatest moments and biggest issues.
Written by: Peter Golenbock
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Gentleman Jake
- The Success and Tragedy of the Deadball Era’s Greatest First Baseman
- Written by: Harry J Deitz Jr.
- Narrated by: David Cantor
- Length: 7 hrs
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Jake Daubert could have followed the path of two of his brothers and died as a young coal miner. Instead he died as an active baseball player. Baseball provided an escape from the dangerous coal mines of Pennsylvania, but it couldn’t save him from an undiagnosed genetic condition that cut short his life as one of the best players of the Deadball Era.
Written by: Harry J Deitz Jr.