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Baseball

A History of America's Favorite Game

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By: George Vecsey
Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
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Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the New York Times. In Baseball, he recounts the history of America's national pastime. Baseball has been around in various forms for thousands of years, but only within the last 200 years has it become an American institution. Growing from a sport played in open fields and big-city streets, baseball has seen its share of innovators and detractors, heroes and villains. Vecsey details them all, from the scandalous Black Sox of 1919 and modern steroid abusers to icons like Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and the countless underdogs that came out of nowhere to capture the imaginations of fans everywhere.

Vecsey's Baseball is a concise history filled with details and stories that will appeal to rookie and veteran fans alike. Narrator Alan Nebelthau's warm voice punctuates all of the wit and charm of Vecsey's prose.

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"Vivid, affectionate, and clear-eyed, Vecsey's account makes for an engaging sports history." (Publishers Weekly)
Great Baseball History • Entertaining Baseball Stories • Insightful Baseball Lore • Humorous Baseball Tales
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This book was a quick read. If you want to hear about the history of baseball through baseball today this is a book for you. There is a lot of repeat stories throughout but over it was a good read filled with baseball history

Baseball’s history and it origins

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I found it to be less a history and more of a meandering book with random bits of information. Not bad, just not what I expected.

A bit of a grab bag

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Great if you want a quick overview of baseball history. It’s not groundbreaking by any means. There are other books that dive a little deeper into baseball’s origins and customs (like umpires eating sandwiches and sitting down on a lawn chair on the field). This is certainly enjoyable though.

A good starter book for baseball history enthusiasts

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Fabulous retelling of baseball's creation and history. For me, this is the first time I am hearing most all of these stories dating back to the mid 1800s...and I'm a sports junkie. I thought this purchase was a risk...not so at all. I'm shocked at the number of stories with which I was previously unfamiliar. This is a great time-travel trip into the teams, players and businessmen that helped put baseball on the map and up through more modern day lore. Some things have not changed about baseball....you be the judge. One thing to note...the reader is not stellar, but the content more than makes up for his lack of flair.

I've seen some unfavorable reviews of this books pointing towards the lack of baseball strategy covered. READ THE DESCRIPTION. That is not what this purported to accomplish.

WELL worth the listen!

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As a baseball fan for my entire existence, I am constantly reading anything and everything baseball related, so it's no surprise that I listened to this. Glad I did, too. I actually learned a few new things and some of these chapters simply never get old, even after they have been retold thousands of times. It is well worth your purchase into the ballpark.

I learned something.

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Very good and entertaining review of the history of baseball

Interesting

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What did you love best about Baseball?

If you are not looking for strategy and are looking for stories of what made baseball great this is the one to go for. It isn't about stats although they are mentioned it is about the people and how they lived and what they did. The narration is top notch.

What made baseball great

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This is a great book full of insight, humor and of course -- baseball. The author weaves a good story keeping baseball lore alive and well, while sprinkling in the facts, too (snicker snicker). Seriously, if you love the game, then you'll love the book!

If you love baseball, you'll love Baseball!

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This is a dry retelling of baseball's history. It's more like listening to an old guy babble on at the bar than listening to an expert relate history. I wanted to learn more about baseball, not more about how the author thinks baseball was so much better in the old days.

Disappointing

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George Vescey might have been a good New York Times newspaper guy, but this book misses the mark. A little opinionated, typical for any New Yorker, this book is like the B version of Ken Burns baseball documentary.

Baseball

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