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Baseball's Endangered Species
- Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
- By: Lee Lowenfish
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Scouting has been called pro baseball’s personalized way of renewing itself from year to year and a pathway to the game’s past. It takes a very special person to be a baseball scout: normal family life is out of the question because travel is a constant companion. Scouts have the difficult task of not only discovering and signing new players but envisioning the trajectory of raw talent into the future. But the place of the traditional scout has become increasingly dire.
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Baseball's Endangered Species
- Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-03-24
- Language: English
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Negro League Baseball
- The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
- By: Neil Lanctot
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
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The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South. While most black businesses struggled to survive from year to year, professional baseball teams and leagues operated for decades, representing a major achievement in black enterprise and institution building.
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The research is the message
- By JohnFern0813 on 06-08-16
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Negro League Baseball
- The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-10-13
- Language: English
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Baseball's Power Shift
- How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
- By: Krister Swanson
- Narrated by: John T. Arnott
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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From Major League Baseball's inception in the 1880s through World War II, team owners enjoyed monopolistic control of the industry. Despite the players' desire to form a viable union, every attempt to do so failed. In the mid-1960s, star players Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale staged a joint holdout for multiyear contracts and much higher salaries. Their holdout quickly drew support from the public; for the first time, owners realized they could ill afford to alienate fans, their primary source of revenue.
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A history of labor relations in MLB
- By Steven Gerweck on 03-05-24
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Baseball's Power Shift
- How the Players Union, the Fans, and the Media Changed American Sports Culture
- Narrated by: John T. Arnott
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-20-17
- Language: English
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Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio
- By: James R. Walker
- Narrated by: Joseph Bevilacqua
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Crack of the Bat takes listeners from the 1920s to the present, examining the role of baseball in the development of the radio industry and the complex coevolution of their relationship. Despite cable television’s ubiquity, live video streaming, and social media, radio remains an important medium through which fans engage with their teams.
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A wonderful marriage of two of my favorite things
- By AB1DQ on 05-11-23
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Crack of the Bat: A History of Baseball on the Radio
- Narrated by: Joseph Bevilacqua
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-20-18
- Language: English
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Baseball
- A History of America's Game
- By: Benjamin G. Rader
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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A succinct history of baseball, newly revised and updated. In this third edition of his lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope, covering record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters. The book is published by The University of Illinois Press.
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Good book!
- By Judy Ellis on 04-15-18
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Baseball
- A History of America's Game
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 08-05-10
- Language: English
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Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
- By: Robert F. Garratt
- Narrated by: Mark Rossman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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In 1957, Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and mines. But San Francisco already had a team, the Seals of the Pacific Coast League, and West Coast fans did not immediately embrace the newcomers. Starting with the franchise’s earliest days and following the team up to recent World Series glory, Home Team chronicles the story of the Giants and their often topsy-turvy relationship with the city of San Francisco.
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A great in depth look into the history of the Giants Franchise
- By Darius Lott on 06-12-23
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Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
- Narrated by: Mark Rossman
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-04-18
- Language: English
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Alou: My Baseball Journey
- By: Felipe Alou, Peter Kerasotis, Pedro Martínez - foreword
- Narrated by: Sam Gonzalez
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In this extraordinary autobiography, Felipe Alou tells of his real dream: to become a doctor. An uncle was funding his university education when an improbable turn of events intervened at the 1955 Pan American Games. There as a track and field athlete, Alou was pressed into service on the baseball field to replace a player sent home for disciplinary reasons. A scout noticed Alou and offered him two hundred pesos to sign a pro contract.
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Great from page one to the last
- By S. O. on 07-27-19
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Alou: My Baseball Journey
- Narrated by: Sam Gonzalez
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-01-18
- Language: English
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Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey
- By: Jean Hastings Ardell, Ila Jane Borders
- Narrated by: Karen Commins
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Making My Pitch tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who, despite formidable obstacles, became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and win a complete men’s collegiate game.
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A female baseball's journey in pro baseball
- By Steven Gerweck on 03-21-23
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Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey
- Narrated by: Karen Commins
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-13-18
- Language: English
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A People's History of Baseball
- By: Mitchell Nathanson
- Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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A People's History of Baseball, probes the less well-known but no less meaningful other side of baseball: episodes not involving equality, patriotism, heroism, and virtuous capitalism, but power - how it is obtained, and how it perpetuates itself. Through the growth and development of baseball Nathanson shows that, if only we choose to look for it, we can see the petty power struggles as well as the large and consequential ones that have likewise defined our nation.
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Not your typical book on baseball's history
- By Steven Gerweck on 02-20-23
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A People's History of Baseball
- Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-25-14
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Pennants
- Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball
- By: Mark L. Armour, Daniel R. Levitt
- Narrated by: John T. Arnott
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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General managers and fans alike have pondered this most important of baseball questions. The Moneyball strategy is not the first example of how new ideas and innovative management have transformed the way teams are assembled. Pursuit of Pennants examines and analyzes a number of compelling, winning baseball teams over the past 100-plus years, focusing on their decision making and how they assembled their championship teams.
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Disappointing To This Baseball Fan
- By Lifeisshort on 05-27-16
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In Pursuit of Pennants
- Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball
- Narrated by: John T. Arnott
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 04-28-16
- Language: English
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Gil Hodges
- A Hall of Fame Life
- By: Mort Zachter
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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In descriptions of athletes, the word “hero” is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a man who epitomized heroism in its truest meaning, holding values and personal interactions to be of utmost importance throughout his life - on the diamond, as a marine in World War II, and in his personal and civic life.
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Gil Hodges
- A Hall of Fame Life
- Narrated by: Jim Killavey
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-31-19
- Language: English
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Lefty O'Doul
- Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador
- By: Dennis Snelling
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Lefty O'Doul relates the untold story of one of baseball's greatest hitters, most colorful characters, and the unofficial father of professional baseball in Japan.
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Needs an editor
- By MRO on 11-16-21
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Lefty O'Doul
- Baseball's Forgotten Ambassador
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-24-21
- Language: English
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Playing for Keeps
- A History of Early Baseball (20th Anniversary Edition)
- By: Warren Goldstein
- Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Playing for Keeps is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator sport for nearly a century. Reconstructing the culture and experience of early baseball through a careful reading of the sporting press, baseball guides, and the correspondence of the player-manager Harry Wright, Warren Goldstein discovers the origins of many modern controversies during the game's earliest decades.The 20th Anniversary Edition includes information about the changes that have occurred in the history of the sport since the 1980s.
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An engaging baseball history lesson
- By Steven Gerweck on 10-08-22
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Playing for Keeps
- A History of Early Baseball (20th Anniversary Edition)
- Narrated by: Robert J. Eckrich
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 05-30-13
- Language: English
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Bluegrass Baseball
- A Year in the Minor League Life
- By: Katya Cengel
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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Forget the steroid-addled, overpaid, and unmotivated players: America's pastime is still alive and well and is still the heartfelt sport it's always been...in the minor leagues. And nowhere is this truer than in Kentucky, whose rich baseball history continues to play out in the four teams profiled in this audiobook. Following these teams through the 2010 season - the triumphs, struggles, and big-league hopes and dreams - the book tells the larger story of baseball in America's smaller venues.
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An interesting look at minor league baseball
- By Steven Gerweck on 11-14-23
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Bluegrass Baseball
- A Year in the Minor League Life
- Narrated by: Bob Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 03-13-15
- Language: English
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Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice
- By: Alan Klein
- Narrated by: Don Bratschie
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Pedro Martinez. Sammy Sosa. Manny Ramirez By 2000, Dominican baseball players were in every Major League clubhouse, and regularly winning every baseball award. In 2002, Omar Minaya became the first Dominican general manager of a Major League team. But how did this codependent relationship between MLB and Dominican talent arise and thrive?
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Author has major anti-MLB bias to the point of accepting unacceptable behavior to support his thesis
- By Brian K. Housler on 10-04-16
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Dominican Baseball: New Pride, Old Prejudice
- Narrated by: Don Bratschie
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-06-14
- Language: English
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One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
- By: John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro, Bob Costas - foreward
- Narrated by: James McSorley
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and America’s pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport - fairness, competition, and mythology - came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game: the Koufax and Drysdale million-dollar holdout, the encroachment of television on newspaper coverage, the changing perception of ballplayers from mythic figures to overgrown boys, the arrival of the everyman Mets and more.
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One Nation Under Baseball: How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
- Narrated by: James McSorley
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 04-17-18
- Language: English
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Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend
- By: Timothy M. Gay
- Narrated by: Dale J Hubbard
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
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Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend is the first book to tell the full story of Speaker’s turbulent life and to document in sharp detail the grit and glory of his pivotal role in baseball’s dead-ball era. Playing for the Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians in the early part of the 20th century, Tris “Spoke” Speaker put up numbers that amaze us even today: his record for career doubles - 792 - may never be approached, let alone broken.
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This book is sort of about Tris Speaker
- By Mallard on 08-24-19
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Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend
- Narrated by: Dale J Hubbard
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-31-18
- 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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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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Lucky Me
- My Sixty-Five Years in Baseball
- By: Eddie Robinson, C. Paul Rogers III
- Narrated by: AOC Richard L. Palmer USN/RET
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Eddie Robinson's career lasted 65 years and spanned the era before and during World War II, integration, the organization of the players union, expansion, use of artificial turf, free agency, labor stoppages, and even the steroid era. He was a Minor League player, a Major League player, a coach, a farm director, a general manager, a scout, and a consultant.
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Good Memoir Marred by Amateurish Reading
- By R. Cryan on 11-24-19
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Lucky Me
- My Sixty-Five Years in Baseball
- Narrated by: AOC Richard L. Palmer USN/RET
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-31-17
- Language: English
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