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  • A History of America's Favorite Game
  • Written by: George Vecsey
  • Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
  • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Baseball

Written by: George Vecsey
Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
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Publisher's Summary

Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the New York Times. In Baseball, he recounts the history of America's national pastime. Baseball has been around in various forms for thousands of years, but only within the last 200 years has it become an American institution. Growing from a sport played in open fields and big-city streets, baseball has seen its share of innovators and detractors, heroes and villains. Vecsey details them all, from the scandalous Black Sox of 1919 and modern steroid abusers to icons like Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and the countless underdogs that came out of nowhere to capture the imaginations of fans everywhere.

Vecsey's Baseball is a concise history filled with details and stories that will appeal to rookie and veteran fans alike. Narrator Alan Nebelthau's warm voice punctuates all of the wit and charm of Vecsey's prose.

©2006 George Vecsey (P)2006 Recorded Books, LLC

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"Vivid, affectionate, and clear-eyed, Vecsey's account makes for an engaging sports history." (Publishers Weekly)

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