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    Sixty Feet, Six Inches

    A Hall of Fame Pitcher & A Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game Is Played

    by Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson, Lonnie Wheeler ...
    Narrated by Mirron Willis, Dominic Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 25 min

    **Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to understand America's pastime from their unique insider perspective.**Legendary. Insightful. Uncompromising. Candid. Uncensored. Mr. October and Hoot Gibson unfortunately never faced each other on the field. But now, in Sixty Feet, Six Inches, these two legends open up in fascinating detail about the game they love and how it ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Big Show

    Inside ESPN's Sportscenter

    by Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick ...
    Narrated by Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 2 min

    From World Sports Headquarters in historic Bristol, Connecticut, comes the audiobook that's more colorful than Dennis Rodman's hair. For the first time, Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick, the tag-team partners of ESPN's award winning Sportscenter, bring what People magazine calls their "Letterman-like loopiness and Koppel-esque smarts" to listeners everywhere in THE BIG SHOW.Less expansive (and ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Grinders

    Baseball's Intrepid Infantry

    by Mike Capps, Chuck Hartenstein ...
    Narrated by Mike Capps ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    Baseball is a game of stars, but this is not their story. These are the stories of players who battled their way to a chance in the big leagues and hung on as long as they could — Deacon Jones, Brian Mazone, and Lorenzo Bundy. They are tales of a love of the game, passed from father to son. Without the Grinders, without their grit, determination, and persistence, there would be no stars. The ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Rothstein

    The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

    by David Pietrusza ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 44 min

    The model for Meyer Wolfsheim from The Great Gatsby and Guys and Dolls' Nathan Detroit, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, political fixer, and criminal mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of fifteen million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."David Piertrusza unearths the canny way Rothstein fixed the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Presidents and the Pastime

    The History of Baseball and the White House

    by Curt Smith ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 51 min

    The Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith's extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the "most American" sport, and the U.S. presidency. Smith, who USA Today calls "America's voice of authority on baseball broadcasting," starts before America's birth, when would be presidents played baseball antecedents ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Whispers of the Gods

    Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age, Told by the Men Who Played It

    by Peter Golenbock ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    In Whispers of the Gods, bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings to life baseball greats from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s through timeless stories told straight from the players themselves. Like the enduring classic The Glory of Their Times, this book features the reminiscences of baseball legends, pulled from hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the author. Roy Campanella talks about life ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Homegrown

    How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up

    by Alex Speier ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 34 min

    The captivating inside story of the historic 2018 Boston Red Sox, as told through the assembly and ascendancy of their talented young core—the culmination of nearly a decade of reporting from one of the most respected baseball writers in the country.The 2018 season was a coronation for the Boston Red Sox. The best team in Major League Baseball—indeed, one of the best teams ever—the Sox won 108 ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Baseball History

    by Introbooks Team ...
    Narrated by Andrea Giordani ...

    Unabridged

    39 min

    Baseball inspired millions of people in the United States. It evolved from the old bat and ball games which used to be played in England during the 18th century. The immigrants who came to settle in North America were the ones responsible to bring this game to the Americans. Eventually they came up with the modern version of the game and by the end of 19th century baseball was being recognised as ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever

    A Great Baseball Player Tells the Hilarious Story behind the Legend

    by David Lipman, Leroy “Satchel” Paige ...
    Narrated by Edward Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 50 min

    Leroy “Satchel” Paige was forty-two years old when hebecame the first African American pitcher in the American League in 1948.Although he was the oldest rookie around, he had already become a legend. Fortwenty-two years, beginning in 1926, Paige dazzled fans with his performance inthe Negro Major Leagues. He outlasted everyone by playing professionalbaseball, both in and out of the majors, until ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Oscar Charleston

    The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player

    by Jeremy Beer ...
    Narrated by David Sadzin ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 24 min

    Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one." Among experts he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. During his prime he became a legend in Cuba and one of black America's most popular figures. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today. In a long career spanning from 1915 to 1954, Charleston played ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl

    How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York’s Baseball Soul

    by Chris Donnelly ...
    Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    Never before had both the Yankees and the Mets been in contention for the playoffs so late in the same season. For months New York fans dreamed of the first Subway Series in nearly thirty years, and the Mets and the Yankees vied for their hearts. Despite their nearly identical records, the two teams were drastically different in performance and clubhouse atmosphere. The Mets were a team filled ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Finley Ball

    How Two Outsiders Turned the Oakland A’s into a Dynasty and Changed the Game Forever

    by Nancy Finley ...
    Narrated by Pam Ward ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 16 min

    When Charlie Finley bought the A’s in 1960, he was an outsider to the game—an insurance businessman with a larger-than-life personality. He brought his cousin Carl on as his right-hand man, moved the team from Kansas City to Oakland, and pioneered a new way to put together a winning team. With legendary players like Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, and Vida Blue, the Finleys’ Oakland A’s won three ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Baseball Forever!

    50 Years of Classic Radio Play-by-Play Highlights from the Miley Collection

    by Jason Turbow, Jason Turbow, John Miley, John Miley ...
    Narrated by Bob Costas ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 15 min

    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 the Shot Heard 'round the World, and amazing feats, like Carl Hubbell striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin—in order—in the 1934 All ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Umpire Is Out

    Calling the Game and Living My True Self

    by Dale Scott, Rob Neyer ...
    Narrated by Dale Scott ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    Dale Scott's career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, working in every Major League Baseball stadium, and interacting with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and hundreds of ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Why We Love Baseball

    A History in 50 Moments

    by Joe Posnanski ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    A love letter to baseball, and the follow-up to last year’s runaway bestseller The Baseball 100The Baseball 100 was a must-have look at 100 memorable baseball players. Joe Posnanski's new book, Why We Love Baseball, is equally essential reading, now about the game's top 50 moments.Willie Mays’s catch. Babe Ruth’s called shot. Kirk Gibson’s limping home run.Moments like these have been described ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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  • Audiobook

    K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches

    by Tyler Kepner ...
    Narrated by Tyler Kepner ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From The New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today.The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Boys of Summer, The

    The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, and What's Happened to Everybody Since

    by Roger Kahn ...
    Narrated by Phil Gigante ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 11 min

    This is an audiobook about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is an audiobook by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the ... Read more

    $66.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Forgotten League, The

    A History of Negro League Baseball

    by Frank Foster ...
    Narrated by Jason Sullivan ...
    Audiobook 2 - History Shorts

    Unabridged

    1 hour 33 min

    ★★★ The greatest baseball players...you've never heard of ★★★Rube Foster, Cool Papa Bell, Monte Irvin, Buck Leonard...they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.This book traces the history of the league from the early days of ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Bucky A story of baseball in the Deadball Era

    by Fred W Veil ...
    Narrated by Ted Brooks ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    Bucky Veil was a professional baseballer who played the game in the early years of the twentieth century, a time when baseball was beginning to evolve into America's national pastime. As a twenty-two-year-old rookie with the 1903 Pittsburg Pirates, he pitched in the first World Series of modern major league baseball, thus witnessing firsthand an important milestone in the history of the sport. No ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Cheated

    The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing

    by Andy Martino ...
    Narrated by Andy Martino ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 1 min

    **“A baseball book that reads like a spy novel—a story about cheaters and the cheated that has the power to forever change how we feel about the game.” —Brian Williams, MSNBC anchor and host of The 11th HourThe definitive insider story of one of the biggest cheating scandals to ever rock Major League Baseball, bringing down high-profile coaches and players, and exposing a long-rumored "sign ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Lou Gehrig

    The Lost Memoir

    by Alan D. Gaff ...
    Narrated by Angelo Di Loreto, Kyle Tait ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 35 min

    The lost memoir from Lou Gehrig—“a compelling rumination by a baseball icon and a tragic hero” (Sports Illustrated) and “a fitting tribute to an inspiring baseball legend” (Publishers Weekly).At the tender age of twenty-four, Lou Gehrig decided to tell the remarkable story of his life and career. He was one of the most famous athletes in the country, in the midst of a record-breaking season with ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    How Baseball Happened

    Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

    by Thomas W. Gilbert ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 38 min

    The fascinating, true, origin story of baseball—how America’s first great sport developed and how it conquered a nationBaseball’s true founders don’t have plaques in Cooperstown. The founders were the hundreds of uncredited amateurs—ordinary people—who played without gloves, facemasks, or performance incentives in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Unlike today’s pro athletes, they ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    They Bled Blue

    Fernandomania, Strike-Season Mayhem, and the Weirdest Championship Baseball Had Ever Seen: The 1981 Los Angeles Dodgers

    by Jason Turbow ...
    Narrated by Jason Turbow ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    They Bled Blue is the rollicking yarn of the Los Angeles Dodgers' crazy 1981 season, a watershed campaign that cemented the team's place and reputation as fitting thoroughly within the surrounding LA culture. That it culminated in an unlikely World Series win-during a split season demarcated by a strike, no less-is not even the most interesting thing about this team. The Dodgers were led by the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    1946 - St. Louis Cardinals vs. Boston Red Sox

    by John Rayburn ...
    Narrated by John Rayburn ...
    series World Series Classics

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    Broadcasting veteran John Rayburn presents classic, historic reenactment of the 1946 World Series championship games between the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox.Game 1Boston - 3St. Louis - 2Game 2Boston - 0St. Louis - 3Game 3St. Louis - 0Boston - 4Game 4St. Louis - 12Boston - 3Game 5St. Louis - 3Boston - 6Game 6Boston - 1St. Louis - 4Game 7Boston - 3St. Louis - 4In... ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial