Baseball Memoirs

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    • A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
    • By: Joe Posnanski
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • The Soul of Baseball is as much the story of Buck O'Neil as it is the story of baseball. Driven by a relentless optimism and his two great passions - for America's pastime and for jazz, America's music - O'Neil played solely for love....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit
    • By: Tom Stanton
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Ellen Adair, Keith O'Brien
    • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • A compelling work of narrative nonfiction, Charlie Hustle chronicles the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century....

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    • The Lost Memoir
    • By: Alan Gaff
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto, Kyle Tait
    • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Lou Gehrig comes alive in this memoir. It is an inspiring, heartfelt rags-to-riches tale about a poor kid from New York who became one of the most revered baseball players of all time....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • Wait Till Next Yearis the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s....

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    • Speed, Grace, and the Negro Leagues
    • By: Lonnie Wheeler
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • James “Cool Papa” Bell was a legend in Black baseball, a lightning-fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Experienced baseball writer and historian Lonnie Wheeler recounts the life of this extraordinary player....

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    • The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty
    • By: Bengie Molina, Joan Ryan
    • Narrated by: Henry Leyva
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Molina is a love story between a formidable but flawed father and a son who, in unearthing answers about his father's life, comes to understand his own....

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    • The Making of a Baseball Player
    • By: Pete Rose
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • The inside story of how Pete Rose became one of the greatest and most controversial players in the history of baseball....

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    • The Vin Scully Story
    • By: Curt Smith
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Joe Torre, Tom Verducci
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 381 ratings
    • A dramatic and revelatory account of Joe Torre’s 12 years as manager of the New York Yankees. Joe Torre is the most successful - and most respected - baseball manager of the modern era, steering the Yankees to six American League pennants and four World Series championships....

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    • A Memoir of Life on the Edge
    • By: Lenny Dykstra
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 557 ratings
    • Lenny Dykstra spins a tragicomic tale of Shakespearean proportions - a relentlessly entertaining American epic that careens between the heights and the abyss....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Keith Hernandez
    • Narrated by: Keith Hernandez
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • Legendary first baseman Keith Hernandez tells all in this gripping and literary memoir....

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    • By: Charles C. Alexander
    • Narrated by: Ian Esmo
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In the 1920s Rogers Hornsby was the National League's foremost star....

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    • By: CC Sabathia, Chris Smith - contributor
    • Narrated by: Guy Lockard, CC Sabathia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • A raw, compelling memoir of baseball, family, fame, addiction, and recovery, Till the End is by one of the most beloved baseball players of his generation....

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    • Mantle and Mays, The Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age
    • By: Allen Barra
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels - and lifelong friendship - between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field....

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    • Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley's Swingin' A's
    • By: Jason Turbow
    • Narrated by: Jason Turbow
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • The Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most transformative team in baseball history....

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    • A Daughter’s Message from Heaven That Changed a Father’s Heart and Won a World Series
    • By: Tom Friend, Tim Kurkjian - foreword
    • Narrated by: Ben Holland - foreword, Mark Schlicher
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • Weaving baseball history with personal memoir, this book will make you thrill to victory, believe in hope, stand up to cheer for what is good in peoples' lives. It's a powerful story of redemption and faith that reminds us that God can work in our lives even when we think it's too late....

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