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Champions aren’t born. They’re built. Greg Harden spent over 30 years building them at the University of Michigan, including 400 future professional athletes, 50 NFL first-round draft picks, and 120 Olympians from over 20 countries. He gained national recognition when 60 Minutes Sports profiled him as “Michigan’s Secret Weapon.” Now, in his first book, Greg Harden is reaching out to help anyone who wants to live their best life by offering powerful and practical advice.
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Good book, However, prejudice shows through a bit
- De Don Dotson en 08-22-23
De: Greg Harden
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Playing to Win
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Michael Lewis
- Duración: 2 h y 13 m
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All over America, families are investing blood, sweat, tears, and retirement savings in their children’s sports careers, all with the ultimate goal of…what exactly? A college scholarship? A professional contract? Simply the taste of victory? Through the lens of the highly competitive world of girls’ softball, Lewis reveals the youth sports industrial complex that has arisen to aggressively monetize after-school pastimes.
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Great Listen
- De Brian Bray en 10-15-20
De: Michael Lewis
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Thinner Leaner Stronger
- The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body
- De: Michael Matthews
- Narrado por: Elliott Denkers
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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You can get that beautiful “beach-ready” body without following a bland, boring, bodybuilding diet and without doing exhausting strength training workouts you hate. And this exercise book shows you how.
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"The Ultimate Female Body", but uses male examples
- De bookWorm en 06-29-15
De: Michael Matthews
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Ball Four
- The Final Pitch
- De: Jim Bouton
- Narrado por: Jim Bouton
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn’t true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn’t read it, denounced the book. It was even banned by a few libraries. Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four.
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Three Ten Year Updates Give Bouton a 5th Star
- De Byron en 08-09-12
De: Jim Bouton
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The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing
- Curing Your Hit Impulse in Seven Simple Lessons
- De: Michael McTeigue
- Narrado por: Rob Shamblin
- Duración: 1 h y 45 m
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The biggest paradox in golf is that the harder you try to hit the ball, the worse you do so. In The Keys to the Effortless Golf Swing, Michael McTeigue offers you a simple system of sequential body movements that produces a true swinging motion with every club in the bag. The result is increased distance and greater accuracy for all sizes, shapes, and ages of golfers for a minimum investment in learning time.
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My Swing
- De rrj0717 en 09-09-18
De: Michael McTeigue
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The Little Black Book of Workout Motivation
- De: Michael Matthews
- Narrado por: Michael Matthews
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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Let’s face it: fitness is hard. Have you ever gotten into the car after a long day at work and headed straight for the couch instead of the gym? Have you ever been unable to stop hitting the snooze button in the morning? Have you even felt secretly afraid you just don’t have what it takes to transform your body and health? Welcome to the club.
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Diamond in the rough
- De Mike en 09-03-18
De: Michael Matthews
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Horses Never Lie, 2nd Edition
- The Heart of Passive Leadership
- De: Mark Rashid
- Narrado por: Dan Lawson
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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A revolutionary approach to the techniques of working with horses, by a renowned instructor. In Horses Never Lie, renowned horse trainer Mark Rashid challenges the conventional wisdom of "alpha leadership" and teaches the listener to become a "passive leader" - a counterpart to the kind of horse other members of a herd choose to associate with and to follow. Applying Rashid’s principles and techniques helps cultivate horse personalities that are responsive and dependable regardless of the rider.
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Robotic reading
- De Julie Lynn en 05-08-15
De: Mark Rashid
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Four Years in the Rockies
- Or, The Adventures of Isaac P. Rose, of Shenango Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
- De: James B. Marsh
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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James Marsh's Four Years in the Rockies gives brilliant insight into the life of Isaac P. Rose, a man who forged his own path in the wilderness of the far west. This thrilling account of one mountain man's life at the height of the 19th-century fur industry follows Rose as he overcomes adversity, learns from those around him, and becomes one of the most successful trappers of the Rockies. Four Years in the Rockies is essential listening for anyone interested in the 19th-century fur trade and the adventurers who risked their lives to be part of it.
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Years in the Rockies
- De Janie Evans en 01-07-21
De: James B. Marsh
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Twisted
- The Story of Larry Nassar and the Women Who Took Him Down
- De: Mary Pilon, Carla Correa
- Narrado por: Mary Pilon, Carla Correa
- Duración: 5 h y 17 m
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In early 2018, Larry Nassar, the former doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, was sentenced to serve out the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to a variety of sex crimes. New York Times best-selling author Mary Pilon and Carla Correa chronicle the scandal from its inception, tracking the institutions that Nassar hid behind, the athletic culture that he benefited from, and the women who eventually brought him to justice.
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The Truth as told by the Survivors
- De DKMarkham en 07-27-19
De: Mary Pilon, y otros
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Alone on the Wall (Expanded Edition)
- De: Alex Honnold, David Roberts
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden, Will Damron
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Alone on the Wall recounts the most astonishing achievements of Honnold's extraordinary life and career, brimming with lessons on living fearlessly, taking risks, and maintaining focus even in the face of extreme danger. Now Honnold tells, for the first time and in his own words, the story of his three hours and 56 minutes on the sheer face of El Cap, which Outside called "the moon landing of free soloing.... A generation-defining climb. Bad ass and beyond words.... One of the pinnacle sporting moments of all time."
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Surprisingly Slow Read
- De Pablo Lema en 11-10-19
De: Alex Honnold, y otros
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Journal of a Trapper
- Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843
- De: Osborne Russell
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the lucrative salmon and fur trade. Beginning at the age of 20, he detailed the life of a trapper in his journal and recorded his adventures through treacherous terrain, encounters with dangerous wildlife, and confrontations with the Rockies natives of the Rockies. Osbourne would remain there for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account as he developed into an experienced trapper and a seasoned mountain man of the Rockies.
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early primary source of Rocky Mountain History
- De Ken Pearson en 09-23-20
De: Osborne Russell
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Exploitative Play in Live Poker
- How to Manipulate Your Opponents into Making Mistakes
- De: Alexander Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Alexander Fitzgerald
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
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Many poker players can make good decisions at the table with a reasonable frequency. Nevertheless, there are numerous situations where even very experienced players behave in predictable ways. These deeply-ingrained habits lead them to make mistakes. The problem is that these situations won't often arise at the table by chance - you have to make them happen. Exploitative Play in Live Poker is a ground-breaking work that teaches you how to create the circumstances where your opponents will be likely to blunder and how to exploit them when they do.
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Thank you! Alex
- De Rebekah Hernandez en 05-26-19
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Try Not to Suck
- The Exceptional, Extraordinary Baseball Life of Joe Maddon
- De: Bill Chastain, Jesse Rogers, Ben Zobrist - foreword
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 6 h y 19 m
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With his irreverant personality, laid-back approach, and penchant for the unexpected, Joe Maddon is a singular presence among Major League Baseball managers. Whether he's bringing clowns and live bear cubs to spring training or leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in 108 years, Maddon is always one to watch. In Try Not to Suck, ESPN's Jesse Rogers and MLB.com's Bill Chastain fully explore Maddon's life and career, delving behind the scenes and dissecting that mystique which makes Maddon so popular with players and analysts alike.
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The Wax Pack
- On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife
- De: Brad Balukjian
- Narrado por: Brad Balukjian
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Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected - a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly 30-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack.
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Clever idea, lackluster results
- De Keith en 06-19-20
De: Brad Balukjian
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The Glory of Their Times
- The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
- De: Lawrence S. Ritter
- Narrado por: Lawrence S. Ritter, Fred Snodgrass, Sam Crawford, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
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Baseball's Golden Age comes alive through the voices of men who were there. Selected from the original tapes on which Lawrence S. Ritter based his classic book of baseball history, The Glory of Their Times is a collection of wonderful tales that paint a vivid and evocative picture of a lively young America and the giants who starred on her ballfields, legends like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, and many others.
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A Game Winning, Grand Slam!!!
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Big Hair and Plastic Grass
- A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
- De: Dan Epstein
- Narrado por: Dan Epstein
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the 70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the once-conservative sport to its very foundations. For the millions of fans who grew up during this time, Big Hair and Plastic Grass serves up a delicious trip down memory lane.
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Excellent but biased
- De Andy en 02-25-21
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How Baseball Happened
- Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed
- De: Thomas W. Gilbert
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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The fascinating, true origin story of baseball - how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nation.
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superb reading. ate it up in 2 days.
- De Bill en 01-13-22
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Billy Ball
- Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A's
- De: Dale Tafoya
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics became only the second team in Major League Baseball history to win three consecutive World Series championships. But as the decade came to a close, the A's were in free fall, having lost 108 games in 1979 while drawing just 307,000 fans. Free agency had decimated the A's, and the team's owner, Charlie Finley, was looking for a buyer. First, though, he had to bring fans back to the Oakland Coliseum. Enter Billy Martin.
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Better Options
- De Mark en 03-08-22
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Try Not to Suck
- The Exceptional, Extraordinary Baseball Life of Joe Maddon
- De: Bill Chastain, Jesse Rogers, Ben Zobrist - foreword
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
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With his irreverant personality, laid-back approach, and penchant for the unexpected, Joe Maddon is a singular presence among Major League Baseball managers. Whether he's bringing clowns and live bear cubs to spring training or leading the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in 108 years, Maddon is always one to watch. In Try Not to Suck, ESPN's Jesse Rogers and MLB.com's Bill Chastain fully explore Maddon's life and career, delving behind the scenes and dissecting that mystique which makes Maddon so popular with players and analysts alike.
De: Bill Chastain, y otros
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The Wax Pack
- On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife
- De: Brad Balukjian
- Narrado por: Brad Balukjian
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Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected - a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly 30-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack.
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Clever idea, lackluster results
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The Glory of Their Times
- The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
- De: Lawrence S. Ritter
- Narrado por: Lawrence S. Ritter, Fred Snodgrass, Sam Crawford, y otros
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Baseball's Golden Age comes alive through the voices of men who were there. Selected from the original tapes on which Lawrence S. Ritter based his classic book of baseball history, The Glory of Their Times is a collection of wonderful tales that paint a vivid and evocative picture of a lively young America and the giants who starred on her ballfields, legends like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, and many others.
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A Game Winning, Grand Slam!!!
- De Richard en 09-28-05
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Big Hair and Plastic Grass
- A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
- De: Dan Epstein
- Narrado por: Dan Epstein
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the 70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the once-conservative sport to its very foundations. For the millions of fans who grew up during this time, Big Hair and Plastic Grass serves up a delicious trip down memory lane.
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Excellent but biased
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How Baseball Happened
- Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed
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The fascinating, true origin story of baseball - how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nation.
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superb reading. ate it up in 2 days.
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Billy Ball
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In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics became only the second team in Major League Baseball history to win three consecutive World Series championships. But as the decade came to a close, the A's were in free fall, having lost 108 games in 1979 while drawing just 307,000 fans. Free agency had decimated the A's, and the team's owner, Charlie Finley, was looking for a buyer. First, though, he had to bring fans back to the Oakland Coliseum. Enter Billy Martin.
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If These Walls Could Talk
- Stories from the Boston Red Sox Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
- De: Jerry Remy, Nick Cafardo, Sean McDonough
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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In If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Boston Red Sox Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box, former player and longtime broadcaster Jerry Remy provides insight into the team's inner sanctum as only he can. Listeners will gain the perspective of players, coaches, and personnel in moments of greatness as well as defeat, making for a keepsake no fan will want to miss. Listeners will gain the perspective of players, coaches, and personnel in moments of greatness as well as defeat, making for a keepsake no fan will want to miss.
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Spankhanks
- De Wally en 10-12-23
De: Jerry Remy, y otros
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Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl
- How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York’s Baseball Soul
- De: Chris Donnelly
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Never before had both the Yankees and the Mets been in contention for the playoffs so late in the same season. For months New York fans dreamed of the first Subway Series in nearly 30 years, and the Mets and the Yankees vied for their hearts. While the drama inside the Mets' clubhouse only made the team more endearing to fans, the drama inside the Yankees' clubhouse had the opposite effect. The result was the most attention-grabbing and exciting season New York would see in generations.
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Yankees
- De Kindle Customer en 09-24-20
De: Chris Donnelly
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Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America’s Pastime
- De: Bruce Markusen, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Bruce Markusen
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Every time you watch baseball, you’re watching more than just a game - you’re participating in the latest chapter of a compelling story. What began as the earliest bat-and-ball games became the favorite American pastime of the first 19th-century baseball games. Knowing how baseball came to be what it is today will add levels of enjoyment, respect, and appreciation to any game you watch.
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Not what I expected
- De S. J Wunderink en 10-13-19
De: Bruce Markusen, y otros
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Reconsidering JFK
- De: Michael Shelden, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Michael Shelden
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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The John F. Kennedy presidency has an indelible hold on our imaginations. Even more than half a century later, we remain captivated by the charismatic young leader who promised us the moon, who remained steadfast in the face of nuclear catastrophe, who told us to “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”—and whose life was cut short by shocking assassination.
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Learned New Things
- De Stephen W en 09-07-22
De: Michael Shelden, y otros
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Storytelling and the Human Condition
- De: Alexandra Hudson, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Alexandra Hudson
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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To examine the connection between the storytelling impulse and our implicit desire to understand our lives and our place in the world, you will go on a globe-spanning, time-travelling, media-traversing tour in the 12 lectures of Storytelling and the Human Condition. Your guide is award-winning journalist, author, and storyteller Alexandra Hudson, founder of Civic Renaissance, a community of lifelong learners, which she invites you to join at Civic-Renaissance.com. In this course, she will illuminate the many ways stories shape our lives throughout history and across cultures.
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Lip smacking every 1 minute
- De Assef en 05-06-24
De: Alexandra Hudson, y otros
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Cobb
- De: Al Stump
- Narrado por: Ian Esmo
- Duración: 19 h y 39 m
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As a boy in the 1890s he went looking for thrills in a rural Georgia that still burned with humiliation from the Civil War. As an old man in the 1960s he dared death, picked fights, refused to take his medicine, and drove off all his friends and admirers. He went to his deathbed alone, clutching a loaded pistol and a bag containing millions of dollars worth of cash and securities. During the years in between, he became, according to Al Stump, "the most shrewd, inventive, lurid, detested, mysterious, and superb of all baseball players." He was Ty Cobb. In Cobb, Stump tells how he was given a fascinating window into the Georgia Peach's life and times when the dying Cobb hired him in 1960 to ghostwrite his autobiography.
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What a man -- what a book!
- De John en 08-19-03
De: Al Stump
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Ballpark
- Baseball in the American City
- De: Paul Goldberger
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union Grounds in Brooklyn was a "saloon in the open air"), to the much mourned parks of the early 1900s (Detroit's Tiger Stadium, Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans), to the stadiums we fill today, Paul Goldberger makes clear the inextricable bond between the American city and America's favorite pastime. In the changing locations and architecture of our ballparks, Goldberger reveals the manifestations of a changing society.
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Fantastic book!
- De S. O. en 12-27-19
De: Paul Goldberger
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Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet
- De: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: John McWhorter
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
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Embark on a journey to the very beginning of writing as a tool of language and see how the many threads of history and linguistics came together to create the alphabet that forms the foundation of English writing. Your guide is Professor John McWhorter of Columbia University and in the 16 lectures of Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet, he will help you navigate the complex linguistic and cultural history behind one of our most crucial tools of communication.
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Fantastic narration & interesting content
- De Shelby en 06-06-23
De: John McWhorter, y otros
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The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told
- Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond
- De: Jeff Silverman
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain, Hillary Huber
- Duración: 14 h y 51 m
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At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a 17-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell - "organized baseball's first girl pitcher." In July 1970, a stripper rushed onto the field at Riverfront Stadium to kiss Johnny Bench, temporarily disrupting a game attended by President Nixon and his family. These are just some of the great, quirky, and comic moments in the annals of baseball recorded in The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told.
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Not what I was expecting... at all
- De keith en 04-16-17
De: Jeff Silverman
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Oscar Charleston
- The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player
- De: Jeremy Beer
- Narrado por: David Sadzin
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one". Among experts, he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. During his prime, he became a legend in Cuba and one of Black America's most popular figures. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today.
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- De steve finkelstein en 01-27-23
De: Jeremy Beer
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They Bled Blue
- Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers
- De: Jason Turbow
- Narrado por: Jason Turbow
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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They Bled Blue is the rollicking yarn of the Los Angeles Dodgers' crazy 1981 season, a watershed campaign that cemented the team's place and reputation as fitting thoroughly within the surrounding LA culture. That it culminated in an unlikely World Series win - during a split season demarcated by a strike, no less - is not even the most interesting thing about this team.
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Dodgers history smeared by a Giants fan...
- De Bim Henderson en 07-28-19
De: Jason Turbow
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Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic
- Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's
- De: Jason Turbow
- Narrado por: Jason Turbow
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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The Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most transformative team in baseball history. Never before had an entire organization so collectively traumatized baseball's establishment with its outlandish behavior and business decisions - or with its indisputable winning record: five straight division titles and three straight championships. The high drama that played out on the field was exceeded only by the drama in the clubhouse and front office.
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Great insight, funny story on the A's!
- De Jay T en 08-05-21
De: Jason Turbow
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- 02-10-23
Concise history of the Negro Leagues
This is a well-presented and concise history of Negro League Baseball. It's only 12 lectures, about 6 hours, but it covers the development, growth, and downfall of the different leagues. Starting with the growth of baseball after the Civil War and emancipation, Moore tells the story of the development and difficult growth of Black baseball through the players, owners, and teams that were essential to the history. I didn't realize how many different Negro leagues there were. I would have liked another lecture on the post-integration downfall; this is covered very quickly in the lecture on integration but it felt like there was more to be said about what happens after integration. I think any fan of baseball will learn a lot about an important part of the history of baseball and America in these lectures.
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- wildbillhagy
- 02-12-24
A Solid Baseline History for the Negro Leagues
It was a great opportunity to listen and confirm that baseball could not have become America's pastime without the Negro Leagues influence. Taking it all the way back to the post-Civil War period, you do tend to forget that baseball was such a huge deal. It's a solid start for getting yourself up-to-speed on the basics of the major players, stars and problems the plagued the leagues.
I thought that it was presented more like a book report than an actual course. Louis Moore as the author had numerous opportunities to give perspective when explaining things like salaries, but chose to just go with numbers. For instance, how much was Satchel Paige really playing for and compare that to what most Americans - both white and black were making at that time in a year. It would have given more meaning to the facts that were interspersed with stories. Mr. Moore was fond of saying, "Some say..." instead of finding people that might have had knowledge to compare the great Negro League stars to those we know today. Bob Kendrick who runs the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City would have a huge amount of first hand accounts. Further, the Sociaty for American Baseball Research (SABR) has numerous articles that detail Negro League Baseball in California that although not as well known, was hardly mentioned in the book.
This is a solid place to get yourself familiar with the important contributions of the Negro Leagues to baseball today, but you will need to seek out other resources to get the whole picture.
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