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John Feinstein is one of the most influential sportswriters of the last three decades. In his masterful new audiobook, Where Nobody Knows Your Name, Feinstein delivers a fascinating account of the mysterious proving ground of America’s national pastime, pulling back the veil on the minor leagues of baseball.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Living on the Cusp of a Dream
- De W Perry Hall en 04-09-14
De: John Feinstein
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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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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You Can't Make This Up
- Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television
- De: Al Michaels, L. Jon Wertheim
- Narrado por: Al Michaels, Ray Porter
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 813
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 723
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 722
In this highly entertaining and insightful memoir, one of television’s most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern sports.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great, everything I hoped for, but...
- De Shortfellow en 11-30-14
De: Al Michaels, y otros
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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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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The Best Team Money Can Buy
- The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse
- De: Molly Knight
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 190
In 2012 the Los Angeles Dodgers were bought out of bankruptcy in the most expensive sale in sports history. Los Angeles icon Magic Johnson and his partners hoped to put together a team worthy of Hollywood. By most accounts they have succeeded, if not always in the way they might have imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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BOTH BOOK AND TEAM NEED TO BE BETTER
- De Ray en 09-06-15
De: Molly Knight
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The Captain
- The Journey of Derek Jeter
- De: Ian O'Connor
- Narrado por: Nick Pollifrone
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 260
Every spring, Little Leaguers across the country mimic his stance and squabble over the right to wear his number, 2, the next number to be retired by the world’s most famous ball team. Derek Jeter is their hero. He walks in the footsteps of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle, and someday his shadow will loom just as large. Yet he has never been the best player in baseball. In fact, he hasn’t always been the best player on his team. But his intangible grace and Jordanesque ability to play big in the biggest of postseason moments make him the face of the modern Yankee dynasty, and of America’s game.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book, terrible narrator.
- De Butter en 05-09-14
De: Ian O'Connor
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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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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
- Versión completa
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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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1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever
- De: Bill Madden
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Jackie Robinson heroically broke the color barrier in 1947. But how—and, in practice, when—did the integration of the sport actually occur? Bill Madden shows that baseball’s famous black experiment” did not truly succeed until the coming of age of Willie Mays and the emergence of some star players—Larry Doby, Hank Aaron, and Ernie Banks—in 1954. And as a relevant backdrop off the field, it was in May of that year that the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, that segregation be outlawed in America’s public schools.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Acumen bugaboo
- De steve finkelstein en 04-25-21
De: Bill Madden
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Our Team
- The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball
- De: Luke Epplin
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 101
The riveting story of four men - Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige - whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who will like this book?
- De Brian L. Quarton en 04-03-21
De: Luke Epplin
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Scribe
- My Life in Sports
- De: Bob Ryan
- Narrado por: Bob Ryan
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him the "quintessential American sportswriter". For the past 25 years, he has also been a regular on various ESPN shows, especially The Sports Reporters, spreading his knowledge and enthusiasm for sports of all kinds.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No my idea of a memoir
- De Michael Friedman en 12-19-14
De: Bob Ryan
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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
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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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The Russian Five
- A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery and Courage
- De: Keith Gave
- Narrado por: Bob Brill
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 74
When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best place to find world-class players who could turn things around more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron Curtain. All they had to do to get them was make history by drafting them and then figure out how to get them out of the Soviet Union.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting
- De Kandace en 04-23-21
De: Keith Gave
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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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The Team That Changed Baseball
- Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates
- De: Bruce Markusen
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
In The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates, veteran baseball writer Bruce Markusen tells the story of one of the most likable and significant teams in the history of professional sports. In addition to the fact that they fielded the first all-minority lineup in major league history, the 1971 Pirates are noteworthy for the team's inspiring individual performances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The first All Black and Brown Baseball Line-up.
- De Matthew Tsien en 05-22-16
De: Bruce Markusen
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Three Nights in August
- Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
- De: Buzz Bissinger
- Narrado por: Jeffrey Nordling
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 211
Given unprecedented access to La Russa and his team, best-selling journalist Bissinger captures baseball's strategic and emotional essence. We watch from the dugout as La Russa's Cardinals take on their archrivals, the Chicago Cubs, in a thrilling three-game series.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Book with good premise follows through
- De Peter en 11-18-05
De: Buzz Bissinger
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Curveball
- How I Discovered True Fulfillment After Chasing Fortune and Fame
- De: Barry Zito, Robert Noland
- Narrado por: Barry Zito
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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