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Sports Byline: Jim Palmer

by Ron Barr ...

Narrated by Ron Barr ...

Series series Sports Byline
Unabridged

36 min

Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Palmer played his entire 19-year career with the Baltimore Orioles, winning three World Series championships and three Cy Young Awards. He remains the youngest pitcher to throw a World Series complete game shutout. After retiring, Palmer became an MLB announcer that includes calling World Series games. He talks about his lengthy playing career and his book, Nine Innings ... Read more

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Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Palmer played his entire 19-year career with the Baltimore Orioles, winning three World Series championships and three Cy Young Awards. He remains the youngest pitcher to throw a World Series complete game shutout. After retiring, Palmer became an MLB announcer that includes calling World Series games. He talks about his lengthy playing career and his book, Nine Innings
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Journey Through the Wilderness: Embracing Nature's Solitude

"Immerse in Nature: Access Captivating Audio Lessons for an Unforgettable Wilderness Journey!"

by Jasper Thornfield ...

Narrated by Nick Porter ...

Unabridged

2 hours 18 min

Journey Through the Wilderness: Embracing Nature's Solitude⭐⭐ Simplified Audio Guide ⭐⭐Are you looking to find peace, strength, and rediscover yourself through the solitude of nature?Seeking a comprehensive guide that provides all necessary elements to embrace the wilderness?Your search ends here!This guide serves as your definitive companion for deepening your conne... ... Read more

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Journey Through the Wilderness: Embracing Nature's Solitude⭐⭐ Simplified Audio Guide ⭐⭐Are you looking to find peace, strength, and rediscover yourself through the solitude of nature?Seeking a comprehensive guide that provides all necessary elements to embrace the wilderness?Your search ends here!This guide serves as your definitive companion for deepening your conne...
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Why I Love Baseball

by Larry King ...

Narrated by Larry King ...

Unabridged

2 hours 36 min

Larry King was a true-blue baseball fanatic. A lifelong love affair began the night he attended a Dodgers game at Ebbets Field as a kid in 1940s Brooklyn. That was a simpler era in America's history, a time when tickets to a game cost fifty cents and parish priests prayed for Gil Hodges to break out of a slump.In this heartfelt valentine to America's favorite pastime, King recalls the many ... Read more

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Larry King was a true-blue baseball fanatic. A lifelong love affair began the night he attended a Dodgers game at Ebbets Field as a kid in 1940s Brooklyn. That was a simpler era in America's history, a time when tickets to a game cost fifty cents and parish priests prayed for Gil Hodges to break out of a slump.In this heartfelt valentine to America's favorite pastime, King recalls the many
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Sports Byline: Cam Perron

by Ron Barr ...

Narrated by Ron Barr, Cam Perron ...

Series series Sports Byline Classics
Unabridged

10 min

In this Sports Byline interview, Ron Barr talks to Cam Perron, who developed an interest in the Negro League baseball players when he was just 12 years old. Perron has since been chronicling his research on the players and the league, and was featured on HBO’s Real Sports.Perron shares stories from the Negro League players he’s become close with in his research and gives insight into this ... Read more

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In this Sports Byline interview, Ron Barr talks to Cam Perron, who developed an interest in the Negro League baseball players when he was just 12 years old. Perron has since been chronicling his research on the players and the league, and was featured on HBO’s Real Sports.Perron shares stories from the Negro League players he’s become close with in his research and gives insight into this
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Baseball: The Movie

by Noah Gittell ...

Narrated by Noah Gittell ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal ... Read more

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Baseball has always been a symbol as much as a sport. With a blend of individual confrontation and team play, a luxurious pace, and an immaculate urban parkland setting, it offers a sunny rendering of the American Dream, both the hard work that underpins it and the rewards it promises. Film, America's other national pastime, which magnifies and mythologizes all it touches, has long been the ideal
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Rickey

The Life and Legend of an American Original

by Howard Bryant ...

Narrated by JD Jackson ...

Unabridged

18 hours 37 min

From the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball’s epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America’s heart over nearly five electric decades in the game.Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson’s does. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a ... Read more

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From the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball’s epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America’s heart over nearly five electric decades in the game.Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson’s does. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a
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Swing Kings

The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution

by Jared Diamond ...

Narrated by Joe Farinacci ...

Unabridged

10 hours 8 min

""This is the best baseball book I’ve read in years. Swing Kings is a love letter to small people with big ideas."" — Sam Walker, author of The Captain ClassFrom the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age.We ... Read more

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""This is the best baseball book I’ve read in years. Swing Kings is a love letter to small people with big ideas."" — Sam Walker, author of The Captain ClassFrom the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age.We
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Why Baseball Matters

by Susan Jacoby ...

Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

Unabridged

5 hours 17 min

Baseball, first dubbed the "national pastime" in print in 1856, is the country's most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans. Furthermore, baseball's greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital distraction.These paradoxes are explored by the historian and ... Read more

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Baseball, first dubbed the "national pastime" in print in 1856, is the country's most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans. Furthermore, baseball's greatest charm—a clockless suspension of time—is also its greatest liability in a culture of digital distraction.These paradoxes are explored by the historian and
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Charlie Hustle

The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

by Keith O'Brien ...

Narrated by Keith O'Brien, Ellen Adair ...

Unabridged

14 hours 47 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating chronicle of 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 • "Comprehensive, compulsively readable and wholly terrific."—The Wall Street JournalA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating chronicle of 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 • "Comprehensive, compulsively readable and wholly terrific."—The Wall Street JournalA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE
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Grand Slam for God, A

A Journey from Baseball Star to Catholic Priest

by Burke Masters, Mike Sweeney ...

Narrated by Burke Masters ...

Unabridged

5 hours 2 min

Burke Masters had the perfect game plan for his life: he was going to become a Major League Baseball player. As a star infielder for Mississippi State with a game-winning grand slam to help his team reach the College World Series, he was well on his way to the career of his dreams. But little did he know that his life-changing call would not be from a recruiter to join the Major Leagues—it would ... Read more

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Burke Masters had the perfect game plan for his life: he was going to become a Major League Baseball player. As a star infielder for Mississippi State with a game-winning grand slam to help his team reach the College World Series, he was well on his way to the career of his dreams. But little did he know that his life-changing call would not be from a recruiter to join the Major Leagues—it would
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Big Hair and Plastic Grass

A Funky Ride through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s

by Dan Epstein ...

Narrated by Dan Epstein ...

Unabridged

12 hours 54 min

The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball’s most colorful and controversial decade.The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the ‘70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the once-conservative sport to its very foundations.Outspoken players ... Read more

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The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball’s most colorful and controversial decade.The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the ‘70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided head-on with the national pastime, rocking the once-conservative sport to its very foundations.Outspoken players
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Sports Byline: Dave Kaval

by Ron Barr ...

Narrated by Ron Barr, Dave Kaval ...

Series series Sports Byline Classics
Unabridged

26 min

Dave Kaval, president of the Oakland A’s and founder of the independent Golden Baseball League, talks about his mission to get a new stadium built in Oakland, as well as how he took inspiration from Steve Jobs to start the Golden Baseball League.Kaval gives insight on the Cleveland sports fan mentality, growing up in Cleveland and going to Municipal Stadium and the intimacy of being a Cleveland ... Read more

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Dave Kaval, president of the Oakland A’s and founder of the independent Golden Baseball League, talks about his mission to get a new stadium built in Oakland, as well as how he took inspiration from Steve Jobs to start the Golden Baseball League.Kaval gives insight on the Cleveland sports fan mentality, growing up in Cleveland and going to Municipal Stadium and the intimacy of being a Cleveland
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Trading Bases

A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order)

by Joe Peta ...

Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

Unabridged

9 hours 36 min

An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games—with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it.After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job. He found a new one but lost that, too, when an ambulance mowed him down. In search of a way to cheer himself up ... Read more

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An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games—with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it.After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job. He found a new one but lost that, too, when an ambulance mowed him down. In search of a way to cheer himself up
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The Empire Strikes Out

How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy and Promoted the American Way Abroad

by Robert Elias ...

Narrated by William Hughes ...

Unabridged

15 hours 3 min

"It's our game…America's game: it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere—belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws, [and] is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."—Walt Whitman on baseballIs the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its ... Read more

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"It's our game…America's game: it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere—belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws, [and] is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."—Walt Whitman on baseballIs the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its
... Read more
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Cardboard Gods

An All-American Tale Told through Baseball Cards

by Josh Wilker ...

Narrated by Jim Meskimen ...

Unabridged

8 hours 29 min

Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his friends, we also get Josh's classic observations about the ... Read more

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Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his friends, we also get Josh's classic observations about the
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Baseball: Baseball Strategies: The Top 100 Best Ways To Improve Your Baseball Game

by Ace McCloud ...

Narrated by Joshua Mackey ...

Unabridged

1 hour 55 min

Are you tired of striking out, getting weak hits or failing to make that crucial play on the field?Whether you want to (1) hit better, (2) play your position like a pro, or (3) master the game, this book will get you there.Do your teammates grumble when it's your turn to bat?Discover the three things that you can do to shore up your weak areas, boost your strengths, and equip yourself to play at ... Read more

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Are you tired of striking out, getting weak hits or failing to make that crucial play on the field?Whether you want to (1) hit better, (2) play your position like a pro, or (3) master the game, this book will get you there.Do your teammates grumble when it's your turn to bat?Discover the three things that you can do to shore up your weak areas, boost your strengths, and equip yourself to play at
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Damn Yankees

Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team

by Rob Fleder ...

Narrated by George Guidall, Ron McLarty, Barbara Caruso, Scott Sowers ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

Everyone has an opinion about the Yankees. More than an opinion in most cases, but an opinion at the very least.—From the IntroductionLove them or hate them, the New York Yankees have been an American institution for nearly a century. With their rich history and colorful cast of characters, the Yankees never fail to inspire or provoke. In this exciting compendium, some of today's most acclaimed ... Read more

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Everyone has an opinion about the Yankees. More than an opinion in most cases, but an opinion at the very least.—From the IntroductionLove them or hate them, the New York Yankees have been an American institution for nearly a century. With their rich history and colorful cast of characters, the Yankees never fail to inspire or provoke. In this exciting compendium, some of today's most acclaimed
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Tales from the Dugout

1,001 Humorous, Inspirational and Wild Anecdotes from Minor League Baseball

by Tim Hagerty ...

Narrated by Mark Smeby ...

Unabridged

6 hours 51 min

A wild bull on the field, a fly ball caught by a train conductor, a pitcher taking the mound barefoot—Minor League Baseball has been played across the country in cities large and small for more than a century, and there are thousands of entertaining and improbable stories to tell from it.Join professional baseball broadcaster Tim Hagerty for a journey through the zaniest Minor League stories in ... Read more

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A wild bull on the field, a fly ball caught by a train conductor, a pitcher taking the mound barefoot—Minor League Baseball has been played across the country in cities large and small for more than a century, and there are thousands of entertaining and improbable stories to tell from it.Join professional baseball broadcaster Tim Hagerty for a journey through the zaniest Minor League stories in
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Sho-Time

The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played

by Jeff Fletcher ...

Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

Unabridged

7 hours 59 min

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is playing baseball like no other since the legendary Babe Ruth. Ohtani’s dominance as a two-way player, one that pitches and bats effectively, has taken the Major League by storm. Since entering the league, he won the 2018 AL Rookie of the Year, competed in the 2021 Home Run Derby, started in the 2021 All Star Game as both a pitcher and hitter (the first ... Read more

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Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is playing baseball like no other since the legendary Babe Ruth. Ohtani’s dominance as a two-way player, one that pitches and bats effectively, has taken the Major League by storm. Since entering the league, he won the 2018 AL Rookie of the Year, competed in the 2021 Home Run Derby, started in the 2021 All Star Game as both a pitcher and hitter (the first
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The Legend of Hoopman

by Michael T. Gregory ...

Unabridged

17 hours 21 min

Chuck “Hoopman” Hayes is a retired Army Officer that goes back to school for the opportunity to play college basketball. It doesn’t take Hoopman long to figure out his team is hiding a dark secret. As Chuck digs deeper, he finds the purity of the game that he loves is being subjected to corruption. But Chuck Hayes dares to take on the criminals threatening his teammates and his dreams. To save the ... Read more

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Chuck “Hoopman” Hayes is a retired Army Officer that goes back to school for the opportunity to play college basketball. It doesn’t take Hoopman long to figure out his team is hiding a dark secret. As Chuck digs deeper, he finds the purity of the game that he loves is being subjected to corruption. But Chuck Hayes dares to take on the criminals threatening his teammates and his dreams. To save the
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I Should Have Quit This Morning

Adventures in Minor League Baseball

by Kathy Diekroeger ...

Narrated by Michael Butler Murray ...

Unabridged

10 hours 8 min

The road to Major League baseball goes through the minor leagues. Every year there are over 5,500 players trying to work their way to the top of the tiered minor league system. Very few people know what life is really like for these aspiring players—until now. This collection of stories from actual minor league players is a hilarious, heartbreaking and honest account of the struggle to make it to ... Read more

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The road to Major League baseball goes through the minor leagues. Every year there are over 5,500 players trying to work their way to the top of the tiered minor league system. Very few people know what life is really like for these aspiring players—until now. This collection of stories from actual minor league players is a hilarious, heartbreaking and honest account of the struggle to make it to
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Queen of the Negro Leagues

Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles

by James Overmyer ...

Narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts ...

Unabridged

12 hours 39 min

The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no one like Effa Manley in the sports world of the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sophisticated woman who owned a baseball team. She never shrank from going head to head with men, who dominated the ranks of sports executives. That her life story remained unchronicled for so long can only be attributed to one thing: her team, the Newark ... Read more

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The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no one like Effa Manley in the sports world of the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sophisticated woman who owned a baseball team. She never shrank from going head to head with men, who dominated the ranks of sports executives. That her life story remained unchronicled for so long can only be attributed to one thing: her team, the Newark
... Read more
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The Glory of Their Times

The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It

by Lawrence S. Ritter ...

Narrated by Various ...

Unabridged

4 hours 52 min

"Oh, the game was very different in my day from what it's like today. I don't mean just that the fences were further back and the ball was deader and things like that. I mean it was more fun to play ball then." - Davy JonesFirst published in 1966, The Glory of Their Times is a universally hailed classic. A loving look back at the way baseball used to be, and the legends who played the game- ... Read more

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"Oh, the game was very different in my day from what it's like today. I don't mean just that the fences were further back and the ball was deader and things like that. I mean it was more fun to play ball then." - Davy JonesFirst published in 1966, The Glory of Their Times is a universally hailed classic. A loving look back at the way baseball used to be, and the legends who played the game-
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame

by Timothy B. Shutt ...

Narrated by Timothy B. Shutt ...

Unabridged

8 hours 3 min

Baseball has been celebrated as "America's National Pastime" for more than one hundred and fifty years, and recalls what, at least in retrospect, seems to be an earlier, more innocent age- long summer afternoons and sandlot ball, fresh rural air or brownstone stoops. In part, this is because most of those who love the game played as children and followed their favorite bigleague teams as children. ... Read more

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Baseball has been celebrated as "America's National Pastime" for more than one hundred and fifty years, and recalls what, at least in retrospect, seems to be an earlier, more innocent age- long summer afternoons and sandlot ball, fresh rural air or brownstone stoops. In part, this is because most of those who love the game played as children and followed their favorite bigleague teams as children.
... Read more

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Sports Byline: Jim Palmer

Journey Through the Wilderness: Embracing Nature's Solitude

Why I Love Baseball

Sports Byline: Cam Perron

Baseball: The Movie

Rickey

Swing Kings

Why Baseball Matters

Charlie Hustle

Grand Slam for God, A

Big Hair and Plastic Grass

Sports Byline: Dave Kaval

Trading Bases

The Empire Strikes Out

Cardboard Gods

Baseball: Baseball Strategies: The Top 100 Best Ways To Improve Your Baseball Game

Damn Yankees

Tales from the Dugout

Sho-Time

The Legend of Hoopman

I Should Have Quit This Morning

Queen of the Negro Leagues

The Glory of Their Times

Take Me Out to the Ballgame