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This true story, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, introduces children to a little-discussed part of American history through Marissa Moss’s rich text.
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Pete Rose played baseball with a singular and headfirst abandon that endeared him to fans and peers, even as it riled others--a figure at once magnetic, beloved and polarizing. Rose has more base hits than anyone in history, yet he is not in the Hall of Fame. Twenty-five years ago he was banished from baseball for gambling, then ruled ineligible for Cooperstown; today, the question "Does Pete Rose belong in the Hall of Fame?" has evolved into perhaps the most provocative in sports, a layered, slippery and ever-relevant moral conundrum.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book, not so good production.
- De david d. en 05-01-14
De: Kostya Kennedy
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The Chicago Cubs
- Story of a Curse
- De: Rich Cohen
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 77
For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Chicago Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series. A chronicle of the last few miraculous seasons as experienced through the prism of Cubs history, The Chicago Cubs tracks the famous curse, which was placed on the team in 1945 by the infamous owner of the Billy Goat Tavern, who was ejected from Wrigley Field when he tried to bring his goat into the grandstand for the fifth game of the World Series.
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5 out of 5 stars
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just listen and it all happens again
- De Z. Kuhn en 10-28-17
De: Rich Cohen
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Pull Up a Chair
- The Vin Scully Story
- De: Curt Smith
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
Since 1950, the instantly recognizable voice of Vin Scully has invited listeners to “pull up a chair” for his peerless play-by-play sports reporting. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, Scully has narrated NBC’s Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Games, eighteen no-hitters, and twenty-five World Series, describing players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds in between.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Almost perfect
- De steve finkelstein en 02-06-21
De: Curt Smith
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The Last Best League, 10th Anniversary Edition
- One Summer, One Season, One Dream
- De: Jim Collins
- Narrado por: Jim Collins
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Every summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, the finest college baseball players in the country gather in hopes of making it to "The Show." The hopes are justifiably high: The Cape Cod Baseball League is the best amateur league in the world, producing one out of every six major league players. Over the last decade, baseball's hard truths became evident for the Chatham stars who went on to play professionally, and the final chapter of their story can now be written.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jim Collins: Great American Storyteller
- De M. Leavell en 07-01-14
De: Jim Collins
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Bottom of the 33rd
- Hope and Redemption in Baseball's Longest Game
- De: Dan Barry
- Narrado por: Dan Barry
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. What began as a modestly attended minor-league game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings became not only the longest ever played in baseball history, but something else entirely. The first pitch was thrown after dusk on Holy Saturday, and for the next eight hours the night seemed to suspend its participants between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joys....
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4 out of 5 stars
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I love baseball
- De Sher from Provo en 04-08-13
De: Dan Barry
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Molina
- The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty
- De: Bengie Molina, Joan Ryan
- Narrado por: Henry Leyva
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 85
A baseball rules book. A tape measure. A lottery ticket. These were in the pocket of Bengie Molina's father when he died of a heart attack on the rutted Little League field in his Puerto Rican barrio. The items serve as thematic guideposts in Molina's beautiful memoir about his father, who, through baseball, taught his three sons about loyalty, humility, courage, and the true meaning of success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book about life
- De P. Griswold en 06-11-15
De: Bengie Molina, y otros
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Undefeated
- Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
- De: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 220
When superstar athlete Jim Thorpe and football legend Pop Warner met in 1904 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called "the team that invented football", they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more privileged schools such as Harvard and Army in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius plays, and bone-crushing hard work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I don't even like sports.
- De Melmonie en 03-12-18
De: Steve Sheinkin
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Playing With the Enemy
- A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams
- De: Gary Moore
- Narrado por: Toby Moore
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 39
In 1940, at just 15 years old, small-town baseball star Gene Moore was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who saw in him the potential to become one of the great catchers of all time. Before that could happen, though, WWII intervened. Gene's story, a surprising paean to the power and humanity of a game, is told here by his son, a first-time author who exhibits the confidence and pacing of a pro.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational Story
- De Lynn en 10-08-13
De: Gary Moore
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The Boys of Summer
- The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and What's Happened to Everybody Since
- De: Roger Kahn
- Narrado por: Phil Gigante
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 312
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 311
This is a story about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a story by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is the story about what happened to the team when their glory days were behind them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic book!
- De Christopher Arthur en 11-19-17
De: Roger Kahn
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Opening Day
- The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
- De: Jonathan Eig
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action, Opening Day brings to life baseball's ultimate story.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book, not so great reading
- De Joe Baseball en 08-30-07
De: Jonathan Eig
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The Mannings
- The Fall and Rise of a Football Family
- De: Lars Anderson
- Narrado por: Ian Alan Carlsen
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
From New York Times best-selling author Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports. What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football. Two generations have produced three NFL superstars: Archie Manning, the Ole Miss hero-turned-New Orleans Saint; his son Peyton, widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game; and Peyton's younger brother, Eli, who won two Super Bowl rings of his own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The first family of football
- De Tyler Gordon en 09-08-18
De: Lars Anderson
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The Journey Home
- My Life in Pinstripes
- De: Jorge Posada, Gary Brozek
- Narrado por: Lorenzo Irizarry
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
For 17 seasons the name Jorge Posada was synonymous with New York Yankees baseball. A fixture behind home plate throughout the Yankees biggest successes, Jorge became the Yankees' star catcher almost immediately upon his arrival, and in the years that followed, his accomplishments, work ethic, and leadership established him as one of the greatest Yankees ever to put on the uniform.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jorge who?!!
- De Jacques en 11-30-22
De: Jorge Posada, y otros
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Babe
- The Legend Comes to Life
- De: Robert W. Creamer
- Narrado por: Tom Parker
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 324
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 266
He was the biggest man baseball has ever produced. Babe Ruth transcended the sport that brought him fame, money, and adulation, moving beyond the limits of baselines and outfield fences into the mainstream of American life. In this extraordinary biography, Creamer uncovers the complex and captivating man behind the legend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The definitive biography of Babe Ruth
- De DKT en 05-30-16
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The Big Bam
- The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
- De: Leigh Montville
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 171
Babe Ruth was more than baseball's original superstar. For 85 years, he has remained the sport's reigning titan. He has been named Athlete of the Century...more than once. But who was this large, loud, enigmatic man? In The Big Bam, Leigh Montville brings his trademark touch to this groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the Babe.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The Big Bam
- De Alan en 06-13-06
De: Leigh Montville
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The Keeper - Young Readers' Edition
- The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard
- De: Tim Howard
- Narrado por: William Harper
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 17
In this heartwarming and candid memoir, Tim Howard does something he would never do on a soccer field: he drops his guard. As fiercely protective about his privacy as he is guarding the goal for the US national team and for Everton in the English Premier League, Howard opens up for the first time about how a hyperactive kid from New Jersey with Tourette's syndrome defied the odds to become one of the world’s premier goalkeepers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don't judge a book by it's cover.
- De Anonymous User en 08-17-17
De: Tim Howard
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The Last Folk Hero
- The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
- De: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 22 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 378
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 341
From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible character—and they were dead-on. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you are a sports fan and over 35 years old, you have to listen/read this. Awesome!
- De betty sammons en 06-29-23
De: Jeff Pearlman
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The Baseball Whisperer
- A Small-Town Coach Who Shaped Big League Dreams
- De: Michael Tackett
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the cornfields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, a baseball whisperer who specialized in second chances and lost causes. The statue was a gift from one of Merl's original long-shot projects, a skinny kid from the ghetto in Los Angeles who would one day become a beloved Hall of Fame shortstop: Ozzie Smith.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De zane Butler en 08-13-21
De: Michael Tackett