
The Glory of Their Times
The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
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Awesome
- By TOM WORKING on 03-17-14
By: Eliot Asinof
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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
- By: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrated by: Jeff Pearlman
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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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
- By Lifeisshort on 02-15-22
By: Jeff Pearlman
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The Greatest Summer in Baseball History
- How the '73 Season Changed Us Forever
- By: John Rosengren
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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In 1973, baseball was in crisis. The first strike in pro sports had soured fans, American League attendance had fallen, and America's team—the Yankees—had lost more games and money than ever. Yet that season, five of the game's greatest figures rescued the national pastime. Hank Aaron riveted the nation with his pursuit of Babe Ruth's landmark home run record in the face of racist threats. George Steinbrenner purchased the Yankees at a bargain basement price and began buying back their faded glory.
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Terrible, Just Terrible.
- By Anonymous User on 06-12-23
By: John Rosengren
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
- 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
- By: Jonathan Mahler
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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By early 1977, New York City was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer dubbed "Son of Sam". And on a sweltering night in July, a citywide power outage touched off an orgy of looting and arson that led to the largest mass arrest in the city's history. As the turbulent year wore on, the city became absorbed in two epic battles: the fight between Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle between Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo for the city's mayoralty.
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- By pp on 04-22-21
By: Jonathan Mahler
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Gehrig & the Babe
- The Friendship and the Feud
- By: Tony Castro
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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Gehrig & The Babe: The Friendship and the Feud is the emotionally gripping, electrifying account of the relationship of legendary New York Yankee icons Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth and the tragic behind-the-scenes fight that bitterly tore them apart until Gehrig was dying of a horrific disease. Written by historian and best-selling author Tony Castro, this critically acclaimed book tells their remarkable story that has often been lost between the pages of individual biographies of the American icons.
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Outstanding biography of two of baseball’s immortals.
- By Rachel Falk on 03-23-25
By: Tony Castro
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The Arm
- Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Thing in Sports
- By: Jeff Passan
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Yahoo's lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports - the pitching arm - and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors.
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A MUST READ for every youth baseball parent and coach
- By Casey Fitzsimons on 05-29-16
By: Jeff Passan
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Baseball in the Garden of Eden
- The Secret History of the Early Game
- By: John Thorn
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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This is the true story of how organized baseball started, how gambling shaped the game from its earliest days, and how it became our national pastime and our national mirror. Baseball in the Garden of Eden draws on original research to tell how the game evolved from other bat-and-ball games and gradually supplanted them, how the New York game came to dominate other variants, and how gambling and secret professionalism promoted and plagued the game.
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Good analysis of game origins but . . .
- By Mallard on 04-19-22
By: John Thorn
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Baseball
- A History of America's Favorite Game
- By: George Vecsey
- Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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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.
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Disappointing
- By Tomilee on 08-04-07
By: George Vecsey
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Why We Love Baseball
- A History in 50 Moments
- By: Joe Posnanski
- Narrated by: Joe Posnanski, Ellen Adair
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again. Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays’s catch, Babe Ruth’s called shot, and Kirk Gibson’s limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters.
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Narration
- By Peter on 01-10-24
By: Joe Posnanski
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The Era, 1947-1957
- When the Yankees, the Dodgers, and the Giants Ruled the World
- By: Roger Kahn
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Celebrated sports writer Roger Kahn casts his gaze on the golden age of baseball, an unforgettable time when the game thrived as America's unrivaled national sport. The Era begins in 1947, with Jackie Robinson changing major league baseball forever by taking the field for the Dodgers. Dazzling, momentous events characterize the decade that followed....
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Highly recommend.
- By Robert Dana on 05-15-21
By: Roger Kahn
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Summer of '49
- By: David Halberstam
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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The year was 1949, and a war-wearied nation turned from the battlefields to the ball fields in search of new heroes. It was a summer that marked the beginning of a sports rivalry unequaled in the annals of athletic competition. The awesome New York Yankees and the indomitable Boston Red Sox were fighting for supremacy of baseball's American League and an aging Joe DiMaggio and a brash, headstrong hitting phenomenon named Ted Williams led their respective teams in a classic pennant duel of almost mythic proportions—one that would be decided on the last day of the season.
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Excellent
- By RJA on 11-03-22
By: David Halberstam
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The Last Innocents
- The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers
- By: Michael Leahy
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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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
- By PJ on 05-24-17
By: Michael Leahy
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Fall from Grace
- The Truth and Tragedy of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
- By: Tim Hornbaker
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 10 hrs
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Considered by Ty Cobb as the "finest natural hitter in the history of the game," "Shoeless Joe" Jackson is ranked with the greatest players to ever step onto a baseball diamond. With a career .356 batting average - which is still ranked third all-time - the man from Pickens County, South Carolina, was on his way to becoming one of the greatest players in the sport's history. That is until the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, which shook baseball to its core.
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Entertaining and Educational
- By Colorfinger on 06-14-19
By: Tim Hornbaker
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A Magic Summer
- The Amazin' Story of the 1969 New York Mets
- By: Stanley Cohen
- Narrated by: Ian Eugene Ryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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A Magic Summer tells of that remarkable season by chronicling the major events as viewed twenty years later. Interviews conducted twenty years after with members of the team - Seaver, Ryan, McGraw, and others - provide immediacy and, with that, fascinating updates and insights. This is a unique record and celebration of a season that Mets fans - and all baseball fans - will not soon forget.
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Narration Plagued By Mispronunciation
- By Adam Weisler on 03-12-17
By: Stanley Cohen
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- David J. Ham
- 05-07-20
Wonderful stories from the players who lived them
I had read the print copy of this book years ago. It’s a fantastic view into the early days of major league baseball. The beauty of the audiobook is hearing the players’ stories in their own voices. A real joy for a fan of the game!
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- BNSF Railfan
- 08-12-21
Great stories
The best cause you get to hear the ball players in there own words.
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- Nick
- 05-22-23
The best made better!
The best baseball book ever—made even better with Lawrence Ritter’s brilliant and illuminating interviews available for listening. WONDERFUL experience!
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- John Cook
- 11-03-21
Classic!
To hear the stars of the early days of baseball tell stories is priceless and timeless!
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- wylie smith
- 09-11-22
A pleasure t hear
Above all else, what struck me was the joy that these ex-players took in relating tales of the past. Ritter knew the past history of baseball, and that seemed to open up his interviewees. I heard more genuine laughter here than in any audiobook that I have listened to. And it was ,ore tha genuine than the canned laughter one hears on television.
A totally enjoyable experience. I only wish that this Audible production was longer.
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- moulson
- 08-15-12
Thank you Lawrence Ritter
Listening to the passion in these players' voices, their love of the game and their humor reminded me why I am a baseball fan. I wish there was a book like this on hockey.
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- Brian
- 04-11-18
This Book is a National Treasure!
If you could sum up The Glory of Their Times in three words, what would they be?
A time forgotten
Who was your favorite character and why?
"Wahoo" Sam Crawford. The story of how the author found him in a laundromat and Sam's personality are highlights of the book.
What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Having read the book also I can tell you it is great. Here in the audiobook, you hear the player voices and the author is there introducing the interviews, asking questions, etc. but is only present as much as you need him to be. He lets the ballplayers tell their story without getting in the way. I appreciate his style of interviewing. Ask a question, let them answer and tell their tales.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Baseball at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, when men were men, and played ball for the love of the game.
Any additional comments?
I'm am a fan of baseball and history, so this book brings both together and I enjoyed it very much. I think anyone with an interest in both will appreciate this one. Certainly a must for any baseball fan. Theses ballplayers are long gone but their story and the story of their times lives on with this book. It really is a national treasure.
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- 3Fingerbrown
- 11-21-18
A Historical Treasure
Thank heavens for Larry Ritter, who for some odd reason was the only guy who thought of traveling around the country to interview these baseball greats from the early 1900’s before they all died. This isn’t a traditional audiobook, but rather a series of interviews that supplements the written book, you listen to the ballplayers tell it in their own words. Truly a treasure of oral history.
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- John
- 12-13-16
Glory was Glorius
I thoroughly enjoyed this listen. Notably Crawford, Jones and O'Doul all with great stories ... I wish more of this style of first hand auditory baseball history was available.
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- Bob Beyerle
- 10-31-19
History at it's Finest!
Without doubt, one of the best Baseball books in existence. Great history, and brings out the humanity of the players interviewed, as well as many other players of the various time periods covered.
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