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Crumbs in the Outfield is a collection of baseball haikus, memories, and reflections. Through words and pictures, it captures baseball’s layered moments and experiences that happen on the field and off.
Those moments that happen over nine innings, in the stands, over four seasons, between generations, and in our hearts and minds.
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In 2007, pitcher Barry Zito signed a seven-year, $126 million contract with the San Francisco Giants. At that time, it was the largest contract ever given to a pitcher. He was at the top of his game, in peak physical condition, and had the kind of financial security most people can only dream of. He was also miserable. And it began to show. Zito's career declined over the next few years until he hit rock bottom - watching from the bench as his team won the World Series in 2010. In Curveball, Zito shares his story with honesty and transparency.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Seeker
- De Gary T. en 11-14-19
De: Barry Zito, y otros
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The Chicago Cubs
- Story of a Curse
- De: Rich Cohen
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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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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The Soul of Baseball
- A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
- De: Joe Posnanski
- Narrado por: David Sadzin
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 147
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The Soul of Baseball is as much the story of Buck O'Neil as it is the story of baseball. Driven by a relentless optimism and his two great passions - for America's pastime and for jazz, America's music - O'Neil played solely for love. In an era when greedy, steroid-enhanced athletes have come to characterize professional ball, Posnanski offers a salve for the damaged spirit: the uplifting life lessons of a truly extraordinary man who never missed an opportunity to enjoy and love life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Buck O’Neil fan!!
- De scott en 04-24-20
De: Joe Posnanski
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The Grandest Stage
- A History of the World Series
- De: Tyler Kepner
- Narrado por: Tyler Kepner
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It’s the place where legends are made, where celebration and devastation can hinge on a fly ball off a foul pole or a grounder beneath a first baseman’s glove. And there’s no one better to bring this rich history to life than New York Times national baseball columnist Tyler Kepner, whose bestselling book about pitching, K, was lauded as “Michelangelo explaining the brush strokes on the Sistine Chapel” by Newsday.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful book, filled with tidbits of great information. Essential reading for any fan of baseball history!
- De Shawn Kaufman en 01-23-24
De: Tyler Kepner
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A Nice Little Place on the North Side
- Wrigley Field at One Hundred
- De: George Will
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
In A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will returns to baseball with a deeply personal look at his hapless Chicago Cubs and their often beatified home, Wrigley Field, as it enters its second century. Baseball, Will argues, is full of metaphors for life, religion, and happiness, and Wrigley is considered one of its sacred spaces. But what is its true, hyperbole-free history?
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's EEE-lia, not Ah-LEE-ah
- De Shawcago en 04-25-16
De: George Will
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Summer of '68
- The Season That Changed Baseball - and America - Forever
- De: Tim Wendel
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by national tragedy and sweeping change. Opening Day was postponed and later played in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral. That summer, as the pennant races were heating up, the assassination of Robert Kennedy was later followed by rioting at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But even as tensions boiled over and violence spilled into the streets, something remarkable was happening in major league ballparks across the country. Pitchers were dominating like never before, and with records falling and shut-outs mounting, many began hailing ’68 as “The Year of the Pitcher".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Detroit Upsets St. Louis in 1968 World Series.
- De Matthew Tsien en 05-01-18
De: Tim Wendel
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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
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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 Year of the Pitcher
- Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age
- De: Sridhar Pappu
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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The Year of the Pitcher is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in one of the greatest World Series contests ever, with the Detroit Tigers coming back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Cardinals in Game Seven of the World Series. In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals, embodied an entire generation's hope for integration at a heated moment in American history. Denny McLain, his adversary, was a crass self-promoter.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Misleading Title
- De Paul en 01-25-19
De: Sridhar Pappu
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108 Stitches
- Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game
- De: Ron Darling, Daniel Paisner - contributor
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
This is New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated broadcaster Ron Darling's 108 baseball anecdotes that connect America’s game to the men who played it. Darling has played with or reported on just about everybody who has put on a uniform since 1983, and they in turn have played with or reported on just about everybody who put on a uniform in a previous generation. Like the 108 stitches on a baseball, Darling's experiences are interwoven with every athlete who has ever played, every coach or manager, and every fan.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Meh
- De Amazon Customer en 04-13-19
De: Ron Darling, y otros
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Game Six
- Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime
- De: Mark Frost
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Best-selling author Mark Frost takes listeners back to the 1975 World Series in this thrilling account of the greatest baseball game ever played. The Reds and Red Sox endured three soggy days of inactivity to reach game six. But all that downtime could not prepare them for what happened when the skies finally cleared.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For the love of Baseball
- De Al en 03-23-10
De: Mark Frost
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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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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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The Last Innocents
- The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers
- De: Michael Leahy
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 46
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Legendary Dodgers Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Dick Tracewski, and Tommy Davis encapsulated 1960s America: white and black, Jewish and Christian, wealthy and working class, pro-Vietnam and anti-war, golden boy and seasoned veteran. The Last Innocents is a thoughtful, technicolor portrait of these seven players - friends, mentors, confidants, rivals, and allies - and their storied team that offers an intriguing look at a sport and a nation in transition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reliving my youth
- De PJ en 05-24-17
De: Michael Leahy
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Coach
- Lessons on the Game of Life
- De: Michael Lewis
- Narrado por: Michael Lewis
- Duración: 57 m
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There was a turning point in Michael Lewis' life, in a baseball game when he was 14 years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. "I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do."
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Nostalgia Tour of a Great Man
- De Darwin8u en 08-23-14
De: Michael Lewis
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Ten Innings at Wrigley
- The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
- De: Kevin Cook
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
It was a Thursday at Chicago's Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody expected an afternoon game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs on May 17, 1979, to be much more than a lazy early-season contest matching two teams heading in opposite directions - the first-place Phillies and the Cubs, those lovable losers - until they combined for 13 runs in the first inning. Ten Innings at Wrigley is Kevin Cook's vivid account of a game that could only have happened at this ballpark, in this era, with this colorful cast of heroes and heels.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Baseball stars of my youth
- De Hebern en 05-26-20
De: Kevin Cook
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A Band of Misfits
- Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants
- De: Andrew Baggarly
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
For 53 years, San Francisco waited. Waited for a team like the 2010 Giants to come along. Waited for a team that could end a title drought that started in New York and carried on for more than five decades after a move to the West Coast. Waited for that one magical postseason run that could unleash more than a half-century of pent-up frustration. At long last, the 2010 Giants hopped on that magic carpet and made it happen. San Jose Mercury News beat reporter Andrew Baggarly captured the 2010 Giants' incredible run through the regular season, playoffs and World Series in his new book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relived that season!
- De jeff olson en 12-20-18
De: Andrew Baggarly
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Ty Cobb
- A Terrible Beauty
- De: Charles Leerhsen
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 740
Ty Cobb is baseball royalty, maybe even the greatest player who ever lived. His lifetime batting average is still the highest of all time, and when he retired in 1928, after twenty-one years with the Detroit Tigers and two with the Philadelphia Athletics, he held more than ninety records. But the numbers don't tell half of Cobb's tale. The Georgia Peach was by far the most thrilling player of the era: "Ty Cobb could cause more excitement with a base on balls than Babe Ruth could with a grand slam," one columnist wrote.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Two Cobb Books, One Review of a Maligned Legacy
- De Jonathan Love en 05-17-16
De: Charles Leerhsen
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The Shift
- The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking
- De: Russell A. Carleton, Jeff Passan - foreword
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
With its three-hour-long contests, 162-game seasons, and countless measurable variables, baseball is a sport which lends itself to self-reflection and obsessive analysis. It's a thinking game. It's also a shifting game. Nowhere is this more evident than in the statistical revolution which has swept through the pastime in recent years, bringing metrics like WAR, OPS, and BABIP into front offices and living rooms alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Baseball Players are Human? Who knew?
- De Casey en 06-20-19
De: Russell A. Carleton, y otros