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The Cloudbuster Nine
- The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
- Narrado por: Anne R. Keene
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In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year's World Series, one of the nation's strongest baseball teams practiced on a skinned-out college field in the heart of North Carolina. Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, and Johnny Sain were among a cadre of fighter-pilot cadets who wore the Cloudbuster Nine baseball jersey at an elite Navy training school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As a child, Anne Keene's father, Jim Raugh, suited up as the team bat boy and mascot. He got to know his baseball heroes personally, watching players hit the road on cramped tin-can buses, dazzling factory workers, kids, and service members at dozens of games, including a war-bond exhibition with Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium.
Jimmy followed his baseball dreams as a college All-American but was crushed later in life by a failed Major League bid with the Detroit Tigers. He would have carried this story to his grave had Anne not discovered his scrapbook from a Navy school that shaped America's greatest heroes including George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, John Glenn, and Paul "Bear" Bryant.
With the help of insights from World War II baseball veterans such as Yankees legends Dr. Bobby Brown and Eddie Robinson, the story of this remarkable team is brought to life for the first time in The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II.
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In the wartime fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing the game forever. Within six months his Eagles would become the highest-scoring college basketball team in America, a fast-breaking, hard-pressing juggernaut that would shatter its opponents by as many as 60 points per game. The last student of James Naismith, basketball's inventor, McLendon had opened the door to its future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De Amazon Customer en 11-30-22
De: Scott Ellsworth
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One Shot at Forever
- A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
- De: Chris Ballard
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to become the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There, sporting long hair, and warming up to "Jesus Christ Superstar", the Ironmen would play a dramatic game that would change their lives forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding.
- De Cartman18 en 08-02-13
De: Chris Ballard
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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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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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Their Life's Work
- The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers
- De: Gary M. Pomerantz
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 16 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
The Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s won an unprecedented and unmatched four Super Bowls in six years. A dozen of those Steelers players, coaches, and executives have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, and three decades later their names echo in popular memory: "Mean" Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Mike Webster, Jack Lambert, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De cap en 07-18-18
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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
- Versión completa
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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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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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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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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 219
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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 Three-Year Swim Club
- The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
- De: Julie Checkoway
- Narrado por: Alex Chadwick
- Duración: 14 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 174
In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians. They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American, were malnourished and barefoot, and had no pool; they trained in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains into the sugarcane fields.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story but the Hawaiian words get slaughtered
- De Arabella en 01-26-16
De: Julie Checkoway
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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 375
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 338
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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 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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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 Last Boy
- Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
- De: Jane Leavy
- Narrado por: Jane Leavy, John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Drawing on more than 500 interviews with friends and family, teammates, and opponents, she delivers the definitive account of Mantle's life, mining the mythology of The Mick for the true story of a luminous and illustrious talent with an achingly damaged soul.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Man Behind the Myth
- De Ray en 11-12-10
De: Jane Leavy
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Terror in the City of Champions
- Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit
- De: Tom Stanton
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens - even, possibly, a beloved athlete.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting stories but oversold
- De Theron Schultz en 09-15-18
De: Tom Stanton
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Pete Rose
- An American Dilemma
- De: Kostya Kennedy
- Narrado por: Ben Bartolone
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 120
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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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Rome 1960
- The Olympics that Changed the World
- De: David Maraniss
- Narrado por: David Maraniss
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 44
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The athletes competing in the 1960 Rome Olympics included some of the most honored in Olympic history: decathlete Rafer Johnson, sprinter Wilma Rudolph, Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila, and Louisville boxer Cassius Clay, who at 18 seized the world stage for the first time, four years before he became Muhammad Ali.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Book
- De Jay en 07-30-08
De: David Maraniss
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The Boys of Winter
- The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
- De: Wayne Coffey
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 271
Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 US Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the 20th century. Their "Miracle on Ice" has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more remarkable. It is a legacy of hope, hard work, and homegrown triumph. It is a chronicle of everyday heroes who just wanted to play hockey happily ever after.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, but...
- De S. B. G. en 02-13-18
De: Wayne Coffey
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The Game: Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
- De: George Howe Colt
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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On November 23, 1968, near the end of a turbulent and memorable year, there was a football game that would also prove turbulent and memorable: the season-ending clash between Harvard and Yale. Both teams entered undefeated and, technically at least, came out undefeated. The final score was 29-29. To some of the players on the field, it was a triumph; to others a tragedy. George Howe Colt’s The Game is the story of that iconic American year, as seen through the young men who lived it and were changed by it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More than a game
- De Hebern en 11-05-18
De: George Howe Colt
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His Ownself
- A Semi-Memoir
- De: Dan Jenkins
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
The colorful, sentimental, funny, affectionate, cantankerous memoir by the most colorful, funniest, most cantankerous-- and probably the most revered-- sportswriter of the last fifty years. Dan Jenkins is accepted as one of the greatest (if not the greatest) golf writer of all time, wrote beloved bestselling novels and abused more corporate expense accounts than anyone who ever lived. It's a touching, laugh-out-loud tribute to the romanticism of old-time sportswriting-- and the glory days of sports.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this book!
- De Flannery Abrahamson en 05-23-19
De: Dan Jenkins
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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 370
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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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The Forgotten 500
- De: Gregory A. Freeman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,845
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,390
Here is the astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II: when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines. During a bombing campaign, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian villagers risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers, and for months the airmen lived in hiding, waiting for rescue.
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4 out of 5 stars
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an amazing tale
- De Ron en 10-28-07
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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
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 102
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I was expecting... at all
- De keith en 04-16-17
De: Jeff Silverman
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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
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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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5 out of 5 stars
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A Game Winning, Grand Slam!!!
- De Richard en 09-28-05
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The Wingmen
- The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
- De: Adam Lazarus
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men—already experts in their fields—crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. John Glenn was an ambitious operations officer with fifty-nine World War II combat missions under his belt. His wingman was Ted Williams, the two-time American League Triple Crown winner who, at the pinnacle of his career, was inexplicably recalled to active service in the United States Marine Corps. Together, the affable flier and the tempestuous left fielder soared into North Korea, creating a death-defying bond.
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3 out of 5 stars
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All jumbled up
- De Galen W. en 03-24-24
De: Adam Lazarus
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The League
- How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
- De: John Eisenberg
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 278
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 253
The National Football League's current dominance has obscured how professional football got its start. In The League, John Eisenberg reveals that Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell took an immense risk by investing in the professional game. At that time, the sport barely registered on the national scene. The five owners succeeded only because at critical junctures in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, each sacrificed the short-term success of his team for the longer-term good of the League.
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5 out of 5 stars
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what a great book. loved it completely.
- De Daniel Mosca en 11-08-18
De: John Eisenberg
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Sandy Koufax
- A Lefty's Legacy
- De: Jane Leavy
- Narrado por: Charley Steiner
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 178
No immortal in the history of baseball retired so young, so well, or so completely as Sandy Koufax. After compiling a remarkable record from 1962 to 1966 that saw him lead the National League in ERA all five years, win three Cy Young awards, and pitch four no-hitters including a perfect game, Koufax essentially disappeared. Save for his induction into the Hall of Fame and occasional appearances at the Dodgers training camp, Koufax has remained unavailable, unassailable, and unsullied.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Baseball Favorite
- De Thomas en 04-21-14
De: Jane Leavy
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The Forgotten 500
- De: Gregory A. Freeman
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,845
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,390
Here is the astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II: when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines. During a bombing campaign, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian villagers risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers, and for months the airmen lived in hiding, waiting for rescue.
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4 out of 5 stars
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an amazing tale
- De Ron en 10-28-07
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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
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 102
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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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I was expecting... at all
- De keith en 04-16-17
De: Jeff Silverman
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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
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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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5 out of 5 stars
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A Game Winning, Grand Slam!!!
- De Richard en 09-28-05
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The Wingmen
- The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
- De: Adam Lazarus
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 17
It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men—already experts in their fields—crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. John Glenn was an ambitious operations officer with fifty-nine World War II combat missions under his belt. His wingman was Ted Williams, the two-time American League Triple Crown winner who, at the pinnacle of his career, was inexplicably recalled to active service in the United States Marine Corps. Together, the affable flier and the tempestuous left fielder soared into North Korea, creating a death-defying bond.
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3 out of 5 stars
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All jumbled up
- De Galen W. en 03-24-24
De: Adam Lazarus
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The League
- How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
- De: John Eisenberg
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 278
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 253
The National Football League's current dominance has obscured how professional football got its start. In The League, John Eisenberg reveals that Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell took an immense risk by investing in the professional game. At that time, the sport barely registered on the national scene. The five owners succeeded only because at critical junctures in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, each sacrificed the short-term success of his team for the longer-term good of the League.
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5 out of 5 stars
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what a great book. loved it completely.
- De Daniel Mosca en 11-08-18
De: John Eisenberg
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Sandy Koufax
- A Lefty's Legacy
- De: Jane Leavy
- Narrado por: Charley Steiner
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 178
No immortal in the history of baseball retired so young, so well, or so completely as Sandy Koufax. After compiling a remarkable record from 1962 to 1966 that saw him lead the National League in ERA all five years, win three Cy Young awards, and pitch four no-hitters including a perfect game, Koufax essentially disappeared. Save for his induction into the Hall of Fame and occasional appearances at the Dodgers training camp, Koufax has remained unavailable, unassailable, and unsullied.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Baseball Favorite
- De Thomas en 04-21-14
De: Jane Leavy
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The Last Hero
- A Life of Henry Aaron
- De: Howard Bryant
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 21 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
In the 34 years since his retirement, Henry Aaron’s reputation has only grown in magnitude: He broke existing records (rbis, total bases, extra-base hits) and set new ones (hitting at least 30 home runs per season 15 times, becoming the first player in history to hammer 500 home runs and three thousand hits). But his influence extends beyond statistics, and at long last here is the first definitive biography of one of baseball’s immortal figures.
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3 out of 5 stars
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GREAT STORY but blame the producers for misreads
- De Eddie38 en 03-02-22
De: Howard Bryant
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Pinstripe Empire
- The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss
- De: Marty Appel
- Narrado por: Gregory Gorton
- Duración: 24 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 134
Since their breakthrough championship season in 1923, when Yankee stadium opened, the New York Yankees have been baseball’s most successful, decorated, and colorful franchise. Home to Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Berra, Mantle, Jackson, and Mattingly; and later Torre, Jeter, Rivera, and Rodriguez, the team has been a fixture in our national consciousness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just Fantastic!!
- De Tim en 01-03-14
De: Marty Appel
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The Big Fella
- Babe Ruth and the World He Created
- De: Jane Leavy
- Narrado por: Jane Leavy, Fred Sanders
- Duración: 22 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 154
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 143
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 141
After hitting his 60th home run in September 1927, Ruth embarked on the mother of all barnstorming tours, a three-week victory lap across America, accompanied by Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig. In The Big Fella, acclaimed biographer Jane Leavy recreates that 21-day circus and in so doing captures the romp and the pathos that defined Ruth’s life and times. Drawing from more than 250 interviews, a trove of previously untapped documents, and Ruth family records, Leavy breaks through the mythology that has obscured the legend and delivers the man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Babe Ruth and American History
- De ALKinNYC en 10-21-18
De: Jane Leavy
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 815
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 742
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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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Ted Williams
- The Biography of an American Hero
- De: Leigh Montville
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 21 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 137
He was one of the greatest figures of his generation and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? New York Times best-selling author Leigh Montville delivers an intimate, riveting account of this extraordinary life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An enjoyable listen for baseball buffs
- De Champ en 06-02-04
De: Leigh Montville
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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
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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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47 Days
- The True Story of Two Teen Boys Defying Hitler's Reich
- De: Annette Oppenlander
- Narrado por: Mason McDowell
- Duración: 1 h y 38 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4
In March 1945 Hitler ordered his last propaganda command: send all 15 and 16-year old boys to defend the fatherland. 47 DAYS tells the true story of Günter and Helmut, best friends, who dared to defy and disobey. Without knowing how long the war might continue, they spent 47 harrowing days as fugitives on the run. Being caught meant certain execution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good book liked it
- De Nicole O. en 07-05-23
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The Brooklyn Nine
- De: Alan Gratz
- Narrado por: Ryan Burke
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 26
Baseball is in the Schneider family blood. Each member of this family, from family founder Felix Schneider in the 1800s to Snider Flint in the present day, has a strong tie to the game and to Brooklyn. Through the years, this family has dodged bullets on a battlefield, pitched perfect games, and dealt with the devastating loss of family and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Nine innings - nine generations. One game - one family. Through it all, one thing remains true: The bonds of family are as strong as a love of the game.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something different
- De Zachary M. Casciato en 03-16-24
De: Alan Gratz
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Why We Love Baseball
- A History in 50 Moments
- De: Joe Posnanski
- Narrado por: Joe Posnanski, Ellen Adair
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 104
Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays’s catch, Babe Ruth’s called shot, and Kirk Gibson’s limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters. But these are also moments raw with the humanity of the game, the unheralded heroes, the mesmerizing mistakes drenched in pine tar, and every story, from the immortal to the obscure, is told from a unique perspective.
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4 out of 5 stars
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wonderful story, mediocre narration
- De D. Bhansali en 03-21-24
De: Joe Posnanski
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Three Ring Circus
- Kobe, Shaq, Phil and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
- De: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrado por: Brian Hutchison
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 872
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 772
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 769
In the history of modern sport, there have never been two high-level teammates who loathed each other the way Shaquille O’Neal loathed Kobe Bryant and Kobe Bryant loathed Shaquille O’Neal. From public sniping and sparring, to physical altercations and the repeated threats of trade, it was warfare. And yet, despite eight years of infighting and hostility, by turns mediated and encouraged by coach Phil Jackson, the Shaq-Kobe duo resulted in one of the greatest dynasties in NBA history.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ok I've finished it and have more thoughts
- De Bobby S en 09-24-20
De: Jeff Pearlman
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever
- A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
- De: John "Chick" Donohue, J.T. Molloy
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,949
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,693
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,684
One night in 1967, 26-year-old John Donohue - known as Chick - was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now, they watched as anti-war protesters turned on the troops themselves. One neighborhood patriot came up with an inspired - some would call it insane - idea. Someone should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies there, give them messages of support from back home, and share a few laughs over a can of beer. It would be the Greatest Beer Run Ever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really a good book. Brings back memories
- De Bruce en 06-21-21
De: John "Chick" Donohue, y otros
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The Confidante
- The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America
- De: Christopher C. Gorham
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
With a disarming mix of charm and Tammany-hewn toughness, Rosenberg began her career in public relations in 1920s Manhattan. As FDR's unofficial adviser, Rosenberg soon wielded enormous influence—no less potent for being subtle. Her extraordinary career continued after his death. By 1950, she was tapped to become the assistant secretary of defense—the highest position ever held by a woman in the US military—prompting Senator Joe McCarthy to wage an unsuccessful smear campaign against her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Part History, Part Promotion
- De D. Bucks en 06-07-23
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Cloudbuster Nine
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución2 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Metaldoc
- 01-13-22
Good but needed narrator
This is a well written book, but I really wish I had read the hard copy. The author reads the book herself; while not bad, the book desperately needed a professional narrator.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- gb_tarheelsfan
- 01-21-23
Ted Williams the unheard story
Great to hear about a completely different of so many baseball players lives. Incredibly well researched
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución2 out of 5 stars
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- Lisa Stagaman
- 09-19-23
Disjointed
Too many characters, too many incidental facts-street addresses, dorm room #s. Just couldn’t tie it all together in to an engaging story.
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