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Breaking Babe Ruth: Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min

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 Babe, frustrated and struggling with injuries and illness, grew more acquiescent, but the image of Ruth that baseball perpetuated still informs how many people remember Babe Ruth to this day. This new perspective, approaching Ruth more seriously and placing his life in fuller context, is long overdue.The book is published by University of Missouri Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ted Brooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/196183/bk_acx0_196183_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Zim: A Baseball Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 691min

Don Zimmer had his first taste of baseball glory in 1948 as a member of a national champion American Legion team. He was drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers, only to have his career—and life—threatened when he was beaned in a minor league game in 1953.After a miraculous recovery, he went on to play for Brooklyn’s only world-championship team in 1955, the L.A. Dodgers’ first world-championship team four years later, and as an original New York Met in 1962. Zim managed the San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, and Chicago Cubs, and was Joe Torre’s bench coach during the Yankee’s world championship seasons of 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000. His career has crossed paths with some of baseball’s most memorable people and events. Here is 50 years of baseball history as seen through the eyes of one of its most colorful characters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Denis McKee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004219/bk_blak_004219_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Seventh Game , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 633min

The seventh game of the World Series is about to be played, and more than the world championship is at stake. A man’s destiny is on the line. Johnny Longboat, one of baseball’s greatest pitchers, is taking the mound for the New York Mohawks in what may be his final game. With millions of eyes upon him, only he is aware of the conflicts tormenting him. At 41, Johnny is a man trying to make sense of his past while fearing what the future could bring when his playing career ends. As the deciding seventh game of a bitterly fought World Series suspensefully moves, inning by inning, toward its dramatic climax, and before the seventh game is over, Johnny Longboat is ready to make some hard choices. He’s ready to find out just how much strength is left in his arm - and in his soul. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allan Robertson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009616/bk_adbl_009616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 410min

New York Times best seller A riveting look at what is really said and done behind closed doors with the New York Yankees, the most famous and wealthiest sports franchise in the world. Using the 2018 baseball season as the backdrop, Inside the Empire gives listeners the real, unvarnished “straight-from-the-gut” truth from Brian Cashman, Aaron Boone, Giancarlo Stanton, C.C. Sabathia - even Hal Steinbrenner and Randy Levine - and many more. This is baseball’s version of HBO’s award-winning NFL series Hard Knocks. Klapisch and Solotaroff take you deep into the Yankees clubhouse, their dugout, and the front office and pull back the curtain so that every fan can see what really goes on. Bottom line? You may think you know everything about the storied franchise of the New York Yankees and what makes them tick. But Inside the Empire will set the record straight, and drop bombshells about iconic figures along the way. There’s never been a baseball audiobook quite like it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Klapisch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/157616/bk_acx0_157616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Inside Baseball: The Best of Tom Verducci , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 574min

No sport has inspired better writing than baseball, and no one writes baseball better than Tom Verducci. As Sports Illustrated’s lead baseball writer since 1993, Verducci has witnessed the achievements of the game’s greatest heroes and told their inspiring stories with unmatched passion and sophistication. He has enriched SIs readers with an insider’s perspective on the game, examining subtle shifts in the ever-changing balance between pitchers and hitters, between slumps and streaks, between sacred records and the athletes trying to break them. Despite his deep affection for baseball, however, Verducci has never shied away from the hard truth about the game: His landmark piece about steroids, for instance, changed the baseball landscape forever. These 25 pieces span the generations from Sandy Koufax to Roger Clemens, from Ted Williams to Barry Bonds. They chronicle the important trends in the game and celebrate baseball’s brightest stars and most breathtaking performances. They are the best work of a writer at the top of his game. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ax Norman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012700/bk_adbl_012700_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 468min

If it was not all so true, you’d think it was a fairy tale. A seventeen-year-old from Queens spray paints graffiti on Yankee Stadium and gets nabbed by George Steinbrenner himself. Contrary to his gruff public image, the Boss—driven by a compassionate inner voice—reclaims the teen at a time when the Bronx is literally burning. Thus begins the unlikeliest of baseball stories, one in which Ray Negron is transformed from street kid to batboy and beyond. Befriending many of major league baseball’s greatest stars—Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Munson, Mantle, Catfish, A-Rod, Jeter, even Mrs. Lou Gehrig—Negron ultimately emerges as a dynamic community leader, dedicating his own life to helping the sick and rescuing generations of city kids from unfulfilled lives. Yankee Miracles is an audiobook about the power of baseball to transform lives, about all those miracles on 161st Street we never knew were there. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patrick Downer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012416/bk_adbl_012416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Baseball Forever!: 50 Years of Classic Radio Play-by-Play Highlights from the Miley Collection, Hörbuch, Digital, 255min

John Miley has compiled the most comprehensive audio account of baseball history in existence - a vast and wildly entertaining assemblage of game tapes from throughout the sport's history. His archive contains classic moments, like Bill Mazeroski's homer and the Shot Heard 'Round the World, and amazing feats, like Carl Hubbell striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin - in order - in the 1934 All-Star Game. Narrated by Bob Costas, Baseball Forever! brings you highlights from Miley's collection, with numerous clips available for the first time since their original transmission. Best-selling author Jason Turbow (The Baseball Codes) mines the archive with Miley himself, taking us to some of baseball's greatest settings - Yankee Stadium, Ebbetts Field, Fenway Park - while guided by the game's legendary broadcasters, like Mel Allen, Red Barber, Harry Caray, and Vin Scully. Miley and Turbow have carefully selected an abundance of highlights for Baseball Forever! that is sure to inform, entertain, and appeal to anybody nostalgic for baseball’s storied history. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Costas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbca/001291/bk_bbca_001291_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sterling: His First Time (A Hot Shot of Romance Quickie), Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 93min

Savannah Moore is my best friend’s little sister. She’s also coach’s daughter. She couldn’t possibly be more off-limits to me. Is that why I can’t resist her? What would she think if she knew my secret? I’m one of minor league baseball’s most notorious womanizing players. My reputation precedes me and nearly scares off sweet, beautiful Savannah.She’s irresistible. For the first time, I begin picturing a future with a woman.Too bad she’s completely untouchable.Can we resist the lure of forbidden love? If we give in to our cravings, she might find out my deep, dark secret.Will Sterling’s secret destroy his chance of finding lasting happiness with Savannah? Find out now by listening to this exciting sports romance.The Hot Shots of Romance Quickies are scorching short stories featuring sexy heroes, curvy heroines, seductive insta-love, sizzling bedroom scenes, and satisfying happily ever after endings. Start anywhere. Binge-listen to them all. Grab Sterling now and enjoy a perfectly portioned taste of steamy romance to satisfy your craving. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ann Omasta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214804/bk_acx0_214804_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1451min

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. Yet it’s been nearly 70 years since Frank Graham wrote the last narrative history of the team. Marty Appel, the Yankees’ PR director during the 1970s, now illuminates the team in all its century-plus of glory: clever, maneuvering owners; rowdy, talented players; and, of course, 27 championships. Appel heard war stories from old-timers like Mantle, Berra, and Casey Stengel, and has remained close to the organization ever since. A collector, writer, and raconteur, he gives life to the team’s history, from the muddy, uneven field at Hilltop Park in the 1900s to the evolution of today’s team as an international brand. Loaded with over a century’s worth of great stories and folklore, this is a treasure trove for lovers of sports, the Yankees, New York history, and America’s game. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory Gorton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/009788/bk_adbl_009788_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 890min

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. Tris Speaker explores the colorful life behind the statistics, introducing listeners to a complex and contradictory Texan whose cowboy mentality never left him as he brawled his way through two decades in the big leagues. Speaker’s career put him in the company of Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and Honus Wagner, and in describing it Timothy M. Gay gives a rousing account of some of the best baseball ever played - and some of the darkest moments that ever tainted a game and hastened the end of a career.The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dale J Hubbard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131615/bk_acx0_131615_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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