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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.
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Baseball's Endangered Species
- Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-03
- Language: English
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Alou: My Baseball Journey
- Written by: Felipe Alou, Peter Kerasotis, Pedro Martínez - foreword
- Narrated by: Sam Gonzalez
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In this extraordinary autobiography, Felipe Alou tells of his real dream: to become a doctor. An uncle was funding his university education when an improbable turn of events intervened at the 1955 Pan American Games. There as a track and field athlete, Alou was pressed into service on the baseball field to replace a player sent home for disciplinary reasons. A scout noticed Alou and offered him two hundred pesos to sign a pro contract.
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Alou: My Baseball Journey
- Narrated by: Sam Gonzalez
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-01
- Language: English
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Baseball
- A History of America's Game
- Written by: Benjamin G. Rader
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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A succinct history of baseball, newly revised and updated. In this third edition of his lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope, covering record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters. The book is published by The University of Illinois Press.
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Baseball
- A History of America's Game
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2010-08-05
- Language: English
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Negro League Baseball
- The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
- Written by: Neil Lanctot
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
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The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South. While most black businesses struggled to survive from year to year, professional baseball teams and leagues operated for decades, representing a major achievement in black enterprise and institution building.
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Negro League Baseball
- The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2013-01-10
- Language: English
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Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend
- Written by: Timothy M. Gay
- Narrated by: Dale J Hubbard
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
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Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend is the first book to tell the full story of Speaker’s turbulent life and to document in sharp detail the grit and glory of his pivotal role in baseball’s dead-ball era. Playing for the Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians in the early part of the 20th century, Tris “Spoke” Speaker put up numbers that amaze us even today: his record for career doubles - 792 - may never be approached, let alone broken.
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Great book, but read it by yourself
- By Francois Paquet on 2021-09-19
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Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend
- Narrated by: Dale J Hubbard
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-31
- Language: English
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Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball’s Golden Age
- Written by: Steve Steinberg
- Narrated by: David A. Nickerson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Baseball in the 1920s is most known for Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, but there was another great Yankee player in that era whose compelling story remains untold. Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colorful pitcher, a spitballer. In the Yankees’ storied 1927 season, Shocker finished with a record of 18-6 even while his fastball and physical skills were deserting him. Hardly anyone knew Shocker was suffering from an incurable heart disease that left him able to sleep only while sitting up and that would take his life in less than a year.
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Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball’s Golden Age
- Narrated by: David A. Nickerson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-02
- Language: English
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Playing for Keeps
- A History of Early Baseball (20th Anniversary Edition)
- Written by: Warren Goldstein
- Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.The 20th Anniversary Edition includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s.
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Playing for Keeps
- A History of Early Baseball (20th Anniversary Edition)
- Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-30
- Language: English
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Baseball's Power Shift
- How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
- Written by: Krister Swanson
- Narrated by: John T. Arnott
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players' desire to form a viable union, every attempt to do so failed. In the mid-1960s, star players Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale staged a joint holdout for multiyear contracts and much higher salaries. Their holdout quickly drew support from the public; for the first time, owners realized they could ill afford to alienate fans, their primary source of revenue.
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Baseball's Power Shift
- How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
- Narrated by: John T. Arnott
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2017-02-20
- Language: English
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Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio
- Written by: James R. Walker
- Narrated by: Joseph Bevilacqua
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Crack of the Bat takes listeners from the 1920s to the present, examining the role of baseball in the development of the radio industry and the complex coevolution of their relationship. Despite cable television’s ubiquity, live video streaming, and social media, radio remains an important medium through which fans engage with their teams.
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Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio
- Narrated by: Joseph Bevilacqua
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-20
- Language: English
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Lefty O'Doul
- Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador
- Written by: Dennis Snelling
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Lefty O'Doul relates the untold story of one of baseball's greatest hitters, most colorful characters, and the unofficial father of professional baseball in Japan.
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Lefty O'Doul
- Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-24
- Language: English
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Blackout
- The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training
- Written by: Chris Lamb
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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In the spring of 1946, following the defeat of Hitler’s Germany, America found itself still struggling with the subtler but no less insidious tyrannies of racism and segregation at home. In the midst of it all, Jackie Robinson, a full year away from breaking major league baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers, was undergoing a harrowing dress rehearsal for integration - his first spring training as a minor league prospect with the Montreal Royals, Brooklyn’s AAA team.
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Blackout
- The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2021-07-19
- Language: English
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Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star
- Written by: Edmund F. Wehrle
- Narrated by: Ted Brooks
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness and potential to overturn the status quo presented a threat. After a decades-long campaign waged by baseball to contain and discredit him, the image of Ruth that baseball perpetuated still informs how many people remember Babe Ruth to this day.
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Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star
- Narrated by: Ted Brooks
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-14
- Language: English
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Pastime Lost
- The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
- Written by: David Block
- Narrated by: Michael Hanko
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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In Pastime Lost David Block unearths baseball’s buried history and brings it back to life, illustrating how English baseball was embraced by all sectors of English society and exploring some of the personalities, such as Jane Austen and King George III, who played the game in their childhoods. While rigorously documenting his sources, Block also brings a light touch to his story, inviting us to follow him on some of the adventures that led to his most important discoveries.
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Pastime Lost
- The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
- Narrated by: Michael Hanko
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2020-01-28
- Language: English
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Baseball Goes West
- The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues
- Written by: Lincoln A. Mitchell
- Narrated by: Tim Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Following the 1957 season, two of baseball’s most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers went to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco. Those events have entered baseball lore, and indeed the larger culture, as acts of betrayal committed by greedy owners Walter O’Malley of the Dodgers and Horace Stoneham of the Giants.
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Baseball Goes West
- The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues
- Narrated by: Tim Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-19
- Language: English
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Gil Hodges
- A Hall of Fame Life
- Written by: Mort Zachter
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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In descriptions of athletes, the word “hero” is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a man who epitomized heroism in its truest meaning, holding values and personal interactions to be of utmost importance throughout his life - on the diamond, as a marine in World War II, and in his personal and civic life.
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Gil Hodges
- A Hall of Fame Life
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-31
- Language: English
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Pinstripe Nation
- The New York Yankees in American Culture (Sports & Popular Culture)
- Written by: William Carlson Bishop
- Narrated by: Dale J. Hubbard
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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In Pinstripe Nation, Will Bishop explores the myriad of ways in which the Yankees and their successes (or spectacular failures) became interwoven with the nation's larger cultural narrative. As this informative and entertaining audiobook amply shows, the Yankees have, through all their ups and downs, retained a hold on the American imagination unmatched by any other sports franchise.
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Pinstripe Nation
- The New York Yankees in American Culture (Sports & Popular Culture)
- Narrated by: Dale J. Hubbard
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-25
- Language: English
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Inventing Baseball Heroes
- Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America
- Written by: Amber Roessner
- Narrated by: Pam Rossi
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines "herocrafting" in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities - Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson.
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Inventing Baseball Heroes
- Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America
- Narrated by: Pam Rossi
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2017-07-15
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Pennants
- Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball
- Written by: Mark L. Armour, Daniel R. Levitt
- Narrated by: John T. Arnott
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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General managers and fans alike have pondered this most important of baseball questions. The Moneyball strategy is not the first example of how new ideas and innovative management have transformed the way teams are assembled. Pursuit of Pennants examines and analyzes a number of compelling, winning baseball teams over the past 100-plus years, focusing on their decision making and how they assembled their championship teams.
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In Pursuit of Pennants
- Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball
- Narrated by: John T. Arnott
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2016-04-28
- Language: English
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The Great Baseball Revolt
- The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League
- Written by: Robert B. Ross
- Narrated by: Gary Galone
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned, in part, by the players themselves, a response to the National League’s salary cap and “reserve rule” which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the Players League was a star-studded group that included most of the best players of the National League who bolted, not only to gain control of their wages but also to share ownership of the teams.
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The Great Baseball Revolt
- The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League
- Narrated by: Gary Galone
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2019-08-12
- Language: English
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Suicide Squeeze: Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse
- Written by: William C. Kashatus
- Narrated by: Josh Berndt
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs - specifically, anabolic steroids (APEDs) - provide a tempting competitive advantage for amateur baseball players. But this shortcut can exact a fatal cost on talented athletes. In his urgent book Suicide Squeeze, William Kashatus chronicles the experiences of Taylor Hooton and Rob Garibaldi, two promising high school baseball players who abused APEDs in the hopes of attracting professional scouts and Division I recruiters. However, as a result of their steroid abuse, they ended up taking their own lives.
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Suicide Squeeze: Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse
- Narrated by: Josh Berndt
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-04
- Language: English
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