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Inventing Baseball Heroes
- Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America
- By: Amber Roessner
- Narrated by: Pam Rossi
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines "herocrafting" in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities - Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson.
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Avoid the Audiobook
- By redsrule1 on 01-30-23
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Inventing Baseball Heroes
- Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America
- Narrated by: Pam Rossi
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-15-17
- Language: English
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Suicide Squeeze: Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse
- By: William C. Kashatus
- Narrated by: Josh Berndt
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs - specifically, anabolic steroids (APEDs) - provide a tempting competitive advantage for amateur baseball players. But this shortcut can exact a fatal cost on talented athletes. In his urgent book Suicide Squeeze, William Kashatus chronicles the experiences of Taylor Hooton and Rob Garibaldi, two promising high school baseball players who abused APEDs in the hopes of attracting professional scouts and Division I recruiters. However, as a result of their steroid abuse, they ended up taking their own lives.
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Worth the time to listen
- By Amazon Customer on 12-20-18
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Suicide Squeeze: Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse
- Narrated by: Josh Berndt
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 12-04-18
- Language: English
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Beep
- Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind
- By: David Wanczyk
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the blind is both innovative and intense. And when the best beep baseball team in America, the Austin Blackhawks, takes on its international rival, Taiwan Homerun, no one’s thinking about disability. What we find are athletes playing their hearts out for a championship.
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A great book; a good performance
- By Kyle on 09-21-18
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Beep
- Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-01-18
- Language: English
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Great Home Runs of the 20th Century
- By: Rich Westcott
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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The home run is the single most dramatic moment in baseball. Often it has been the exclamation point that appears at the end of a game, a season, a playoff, or a World Series. For fans, certain images such as that of Carlton Fisk urging his shot fair over Green Monster or of Kirk Gibson limping around the bases are engraved in memory. From Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, the author tells of the stories of what he has selected as the thirty most memorable home runs.
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Very interesting for a fan
- By Sam on 04-23-16
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Great Home Runs of the 20th Century
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-19-13
- Language: English
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The Great Baseball Revolt
- The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League
- By: Robert B. Ross
- Narrated by: Gary Galone
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned, in part, by the players themselves, a response to the National League’s salary cap and “reserve rule” which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the Players League was a star-studded group that included most of the best players of the National League who bolted, not only to gain control of their wages but also to share ownership of the teams.
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Great baseball history
- By Steven Gerweck on 08-06-23
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The Great Baseball Revolt
- The Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players League
- Narrated by: Gary Galone
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 08-12-19
- Language: English
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Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star
- By: Edmund F. Wehrle
- Narrated by: Ted Brooks
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness and potential to overturn the status quo presented a threat. After a decades-long campaign waged by baseball to contain and discredit him, the image of Ruth that baseball perpetuated still informs how many people remember Babe Ruth to this day.
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Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star
- Narrated by: Ted Brooks
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-14-20
- Language: English
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Baseball Goes West
- The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues
- By: Lincoln A. Mitchell
- Narrated by: Tim Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Following the 1957 season, two of baseball’s most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers went to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco. Those events have entered baseball lore, and indeed the larger culture, as acts of betrayal committed by greedy owners Walter O’Malley of the Dodgers and Horace Stoneham of the Giants.
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Interesting theory, well researched
- By DaveBagdade on 10-19-21
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Baseball Goes West
- The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues
- Narrated by: Tim Edwards
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 11-19-19
- Language: English
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Blackout
- The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training
- By: Chris Lamb
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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In the spring of 1946, following the defeat of Hitler’s Germany, America found itself still struggling with the subtler but no less insidious tyrannies of racism and segregation at home. In the midst of it all, Jackie Robinson, a full year away from breaking major league baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers, was undergoing a harrowing dress rehearsal for integration - his first spring training as a minor league prospect with the Montreal Royals, Brooklyn’s AAA team.
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compelling story, well told
- By OpenTheBooks&Listen on 06-30-23
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Blackout
- The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-19-21
- Language: English
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Catching Dreams
- My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
- By: Frazier Robinson, Winnie Robinson
- Narrated by: Korbid Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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In 1939, at the age of 29 - after playing professional baseball for 12 years - Frazier Robinson caught the legendary Satchel Paige in barnstorming games from New Orleans to Walla Walla. Robinson played several more seasons in the Negro Leagues before finishing his career in Canada. While his career was a solid one, it was less spectacular than that of his friend and Hall-of-Famer, Satchel Paige, and so more typical of the experience of most Negro Leaguers.
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Great baseball stories from the past
- By Steven Gerweck on 11-02-22
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Catching Dreams
- My Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
- Narrated by: Korbid Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 09-02-16
- Language: English
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Smart Ball
- Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball
- By: Robert F. Lewis II
- Narrated by: Scotty Drake
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status.
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Smart Book with an Unfortunate Narrator
- By Sally Harrison-Pepper on 02-23-13
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Smart Ball
- Marketing the Myth and Managing the Reality of Major League Baseball
- Narrated by: Scotty Drake
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-18-12
- Language: English
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The Kings of Casino Park
- Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932
- By: Dr. Thomas Aiello PhD
- Narrated by: Claton Butcher
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of 26,000 in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the
New Orleans Item as the "lynch law center of Louisiana." Yet for a few years in the early 1930s, this unlikely spot was home to the Monarchs, a national-caliber Negro League baseball team. Crowds of Black and White fans eagerly filled their segregated grandstand seats to see the players who would become the only World Series team Louisiana would ever generate, and the first from the American South.
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Excellent
- By Ellen on 07-23-12
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The Kings of Casino Park
- Black Baseball in the Lost Season of 1932
- Narrated by: Claton Butcher
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 06-05-12
- Language: English
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Will Big League Baseball Survive?
- Globalization, the End of Television, Youth Sports, and the Future of Major League Baseball
- By: Lincoln Mitchell
- Narrated by: John N Gully
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Major League Baseball is a beloved American institution that has been a product of the economic, social, and media structures that have evolved in the United States over the last century. In his shrewd analysis, Will Big League Baseball Survive?, Lincoln Mitchell asks whether the sport will continue in its current form as a huge, lucrative global business that offers a monopoly in North America - and whether those structures are sustainable.
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Timely Question
- By Casey on 08-21-17
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Will Big League Baseball Survive?
- Globalization, the End of Television, Youth Sports, and the Future of Major League Baseball
- Narrated by: John N Gully
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-27-17
- Language: English
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Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball’s Golden Age
- By: Steve Steinberg
- Narrated by: David A. Nickerson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Baseball in the 1920s is most known for Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, but there was another great Yankee player in that era whose compelling story remains untold. Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colorful pitcher, a spitballer. In the Yankees’ storied 1927 season, Shocker finished with a record of 18-6 even while his fastball and physical skills were deserting him. Hardly anyone knew Shocker was suffering from an incurable heart disease that left him able to sleep only while sitting up and that would take his life in less than a year.
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A forgotten star from the golden age of baseball
- By Steven Gerweck on 12-04-23
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Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball’s Golden Age
- Narrated by: David A. Nickerson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 08-02-18
- Language: English
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Pinstripe Nation
- The New York Yankees in American Culture (Sports & Popular Culture)
- By: William Carlson Bishop
- Narrated by: Dale J. Hubbard
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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In Pinstripe Nation, Will Bishop explores the myriad of ways in which the Yankees and their successes (or spectacular failures) became interwoven with the nation's larger cultural narrative. As this informative and entertaining audiobook amply shows, the Yankees have, through all their ups and downs, retained a hold on the American imagination unmatched by any other sports franchise.
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Pinstripe Nation
- The New York Yankees in American Culture (Sports & Popular Culture)
- Narrated by: Dale J. Hubbard
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-25-19
- Language: English
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Circling the Bases
- Essays on the Challenges and Prospects of the Sports Industry
- By: Andrew Zimbalist
- Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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In Circling the Bases, leading sports economist Andrew Zimbalist continues his discussion and analysis of the major issues and challenges confronting the sports industry in the second decade of the 21st century. Presenting a general overview of the sports business at the college and professional levels, this volume places concerns such as the antitrust status of sports leagues, the stalled progress of gender equity in college sports, and the control of performance enhancing drugs in historical context.
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Circling the Bases
- Essays on the Challenges and Prospects of the Sports Industry
- Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 12-19-13
- Language: English
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Pastime Lost
- The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
- By: David Block
- Narrated by: Michael Hanko
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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In Pastime Lost David Block unearths baseball’s buried history and brings it back to life, illustrating how English baseball was embraced by all sectors of English society and exploring some of the personalities, such as Jane Austen and King George III, who played the game in their childhoods. While rigorously documenting his sources, Block also brings a light touch to his story, inviting us to follow him on some of the adventures that led to his most important discoveries.
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Pastime Lost
- The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
- Narrated by: Michael Hanko
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-28-20
- Language: English
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The Righteous Remnant: The House of David
- By: Robert S. Fogarty
- Narrated by: David Randall Hunter
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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Many Americans associate the House of David with its bearded barnstorming baseball teams of the 1920s and 30s. Others may recall the sex scandal associated with the group, a scandal that gave newspapers during the first years after World War I some added spice. Still, others may know it as a religious communal society founded in 1903, which has a few adherents today. What is this strange group and how can these diverse images be reconciled?
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The Righteous Remnant: The House of David
- Narrated by: David Randall Hunter
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-04-16
- Language: English
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