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Resumen del Editor
When Sports Illustrated was launched in 1954, baseball was, indisputable, the national pastime, its stars America's epic heroes, its rivalries the era's mythology. As baseballs fortunes rose and fell over the next 50 years - and then rose again to new heights, drawing more than 65 million fans to ballparks in 2004 - the game never failed to produce great drama and inspired storytelling.
This collection is a virtual Hall of Fame from the pages of SI, bringing together the stories of baseball's greatest heroes (Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Sandy Koufax) and villains (Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Denny McLain) and characters (Casey Stengel, Max Patkin, Yogi Berra); its legendary quests (the home run chases of Roger Maris, Hank Aaron, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds; the thrilling pennant races, from the Dodgers - Giants in 1951 to the Yankees - Red Sox in 1978); its world-class writers (Frank Deford, Mark Kram, George Plimpton, Peter Gammons, and Tom Verducci) and its own players writing from the inside about their game (Ted Williams, Jim Brosnan, and Jim Bouton).
In the wake of SI's acclaimed Fifty Years of Great Writing comes this baseball anthology worthy of Cooperstown.
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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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- De steve finkelstein en 02-06-21
De: Curt Smith
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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
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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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Classic book!
- De Christopher Arthur en 11-19-17
De: Roger Kahn
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The Big Bam
- The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
- De: Leigh Montville
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
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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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The Big Bam
- De Alan en 06-13-06
De: Leigh Montville
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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
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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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Great book, terrible narrator.
- De Butter en 05-09-14
De: Ian O'Connor
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Bottom of the 33rd
- Hope and Redemption in Baseball's Longest Game
- De: Dan Barry
- Narrado por: Dan Barry
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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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I love baseball
- De Sher from Provo en 04-08-13
De: Dan Barry
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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
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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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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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Long Shot
- De: Mike Piazza, Lonnie Wheeler
- Narrado por: Holter Graham, Mike Piazza
- Duración: 15 h y 47 m
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Mike Piazza was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 62nd round of the 1988 baseball draft as a "courtesy pick". The Dodgers never expected him to play for them - or anyone else. Mike had other ideas. Overcoming his detractors, he became the National League Rookie of the Year in 1993, broke the record for season batting average by a catcher, holds the record for career home runs at his position, and was selected as an All Star 12 times. Mike was groomed for baseball success by his ambitious, self-made father in Pennsylvania, a classic father-son American-dream story.
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I only thought i knew the Mike Piazza story
- De James en 03-24-13
De: Mike Piazza, y otros
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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
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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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Outstanding.
- De Cartman18 en 08-02-13
De: Chris Ballard
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The Bad Guys Won
- A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, the Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform - and Maybe the Best
- De: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrado por: Jeff Pearlman
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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It was 1986, and the New York Mets won 108 regular-season games and the World Series, capturing the hearts (and other assorted body parts) of fans everywhere. But their greatness on the field was nearly eclipsed by how bad they were off it. Led by the indomitable Keith Hernandez and the young dynamic duo of Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, along with the gallant Scum Bunch, the Amazin's left a wide trail of wreckage in their wake-hotel rooms, charter planes, a bar in Houston, and most famously Bill Buckner and the hated Boston Red Sox.
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Maybe 3.5
- De Lifeisshort en 02-15-22
De: Jeff Pearlman
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Opening Day
- The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
- De: Jonathan Eig
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action, Opening Day brings to life baseball's ultimate story.
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Great book, not so great reading
- De Joe Baseball en 08-30-07
De: Jonathan Eig
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They Called Me God
- The Best Umpire Who Ever Lived
- De: Doug Harvey, Peter Golenbock
- Narrado por: Robert Brown
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In the pageantry of baseball, one select group is virtually unknown in the outside world, derided by fans, faced with split-second choices that spell victory or defeat. These men are up-close observers of the action, privy to inside jokes, blood feuds, benches-clearing brawls, and managers’ expletive-filled tirades. In this wonderful memoir, Hall of Fame umpire Doug Harvey takes us within baseball as you’ve never seen it, with unforgettable inside stories of baseball greats such as Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, and Whitey Herzog.
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The Best? Possibly.
- De Rick en 07-12-14
De: Doug Harvey, y otros
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The Last Innocents
- The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers
- De: Michael Leahy
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
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Legendary Dodgers Maury Wills, Sandy Koufax, Wes Parker, Jeff Torborg, Dick Tracewski, and Tommy Davis encapsulated 1960s America: white and black, Jewish and Christian, wealthy and working class, pro-Vietnam and anti-war, golden boy and seasoned veteran. The Last Innocents is a thoughtful, technicolor portrait of these seven players - friends, mentors, confidants, rivals, and allies - and their storied team that offers an intriguing look at a sport and a nation in transition.
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Reliving my youth
- De PJ en 05-24-17
De: Michael Leahy
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108 Stitches
- Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game
- De: Ron Darling, Daniel Paisner - contributor
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
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This is New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated broadcaster Ron Darling's 108 baseball anecdotes that connect America’s game to the men who played it. Darling has played with or reported on just about everybody who has put on a uniform since 1983, and they in turn have played with or reported on just about everybody who put on a uniform in a previous generation. Like the 108 stitches on a baseball, Darling's experiences are interwoven with every athlete who has ever played, every coach or manager, and every fan.
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Meh
- De Amazon Customer en 04-13-19
De: Ron Darling, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Great Baseball Writing
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- Brigham
- 06-14-22
Excellent!
I could have started over from the beginning after finishing this book. It got better and better as it went on.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-27-18
Baseball history revealed
America'*s pastime is one of my favorites. The medium of radio and audio in general give me a vision that to me at least is more vivid then being there can ever be. This book puts you in the place and sometimes into the lives of the legends of our game and some who made it great just by being who they were. This book brings out the stories of players who made the game what it is. Reading this book is like getting a glimpse inside the minds and hearts of those who played and shaped the game.
Though this book has articles written from 1954 to 2004 some of the stories go back in time further then that.
This book will make you appreciate the game we love even more then you do already. In itself the narration is OK but should not be a factor in your choice. The information contained in the book should more then make up for the short comings of the narration. Those of you who write these reviews sometimes insist on telling us about a favorite piece.
That would ruin the greatest quality of this book. That is you never know what is coming next .
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- USA VETERAN
- 12-19-22
GOOD WRITING - & BIASED TOWARDS BIG CITIES, TOO!
Good job, BUT a story on the Reds and their Big Red Machine decade of the 1970s would've been nice! MLB is played outside of NYC and L.A.! 😎
GRADE: B+
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- dcreader
- 10-26-18
Good material but dull narration
SI's Great Baseball Writing has plenty of good material from its vast archives. Unfortunately, the narrator drones on in a monotone that hardly matches the style and excitement of the material. I'd love to see Audible get people like Buster Olney or Tim Kurkjian, who have a real passion for the game, to narrate their baseball books.
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- Benjamin
- 04-22-14
Great baseball stories
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Some stories are really great some others lame
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
I loved the final stories, great for all baseball fans.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Didnt linke his voice. No emotions.
Could you see Great Baseball Writing being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
No its just magazine articles brought together.
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- Jake
- 08-23-14
You'll grow on Dennis Holland
Many, perhaps all of the criticisms I read for this title were at the narrator. His voice was not rich in tone, of superior cadence, or of especially moving inflection. Holland is ordinary, but the book was all the better for it.
These stories stand on their own. They don't need a powerful narrator, all they need is for the listener to have a love of baseball, the desire to know more about the game. In time I think you'll appreciate, and even love Holland's narration, because it's ordinary, because it's real. Because it's baseball.
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- Matthew Tsien
- 04-28-18
Eloquent Baseball Prose.
From Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, to DiMaggio, Mays and Jackie Robinson, to Koufax, Aaron, Ripken and Vladimir Guerero. Over 25 shirt stories of baseball legends.
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- John J. Elert
- 04-16-18
mispronunciations lowered my overall rating
the story about the Mark Buehrle's "perfecto" really irked me, I lived it, know all the characters and street names well.
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- S. Casey
- 09-29-15
Baseball fan book
Fun book. Every baseball fan will enjoy it. I didn't mind the reader's calm voice. The material speaks for itself.
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- Lee
- 04-01-18
A Must For Baseball Fans
I love baseball and I love good writing, thus I’m a big fan of this book. I’ve listened to it three times and also bought a print copy for my dad. Any true fan of the game will definitely appreciate this book.
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