Baseball Memoirs

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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 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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    • 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 185 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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    • Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age, Told by the Men Who Played It
    • By: Peter Golenbock, John Thorn - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • This book features the reminiscences of baseball legends, pulled from hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the author. The players interviewed were All-Stars, Hall of Famers, and heroes to many, and their impact on the national pastime is still seen to this day....

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    • My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
    • By: R. A. Dickey, Wayne Coffey
    • Narrated by: Ben Hunter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R. A. Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseball insight in this memoir about his unlikely journey to the big leagues....

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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 121 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 Los Angeles Dodgers’ Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse
    • By: Molly Knight
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • In 2012 the Los Angeles Dodgers were bought out of bankruptcy in the most expensive sale in sports history....

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    • The Best There Ever Was
    • By: Tony Castro
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In Mantle: The Best There Ever Was, Mickey Mantle biographer Tony Castro brings to life the man who is arguably not only the greatest ballplayer of his time but also the greatest ballplayer of all time....

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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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    • The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
    • By: Eliot Asinof
    • Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 646 ratings
    • In 1919, American headlines proclaimed the fix and cover-up of the World Series as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America." In this painstaking review, Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story....

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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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    • By: Eddie Dominguez, Teri Thompson, Christian Red
    • Narrated by: Eddie Dominquez, Jason Culp, Edward Bauer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • In the wake of 2005's sometimes contentious, sometimes comical Congressional hearings on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and the subsequent Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball established the Department of Investigations (DOI)....

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    • By: Jimmy Breslin
    • Narrated by: Dick Hill
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey....

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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: 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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