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Explore the story of baseball’s greatest legend.
With a legendary career and world-record achievements - some of which are still standing today - Babe Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture. From an unassuming childhood and teen years full of delinquency, nobody could have expected that Babe Ruth would rise to become one of the most famous baseball players of all time.
Delving into his professional career, his most pivotal moments, and the plays which defined his legacy, this biography offers an enlightening look at the life and career of this legendary sportsman. Inside, you’ll get a glimpse at Babe Ruth’s upbringing and early life, his time with the Red Sox and the Yankees, the countless highlights of his career, and much more.
From his record-breaking hits to his masterful pitching skills, Babe Ruth: Biography of the All-Time Greatest Baseball Player offers you a compelling and thought-provoking glimpse into the man behind the sport, perfect for baseball fans of all ages and backgrounds.
Scroll up and buy now to discover Babe Ruth’s story today.
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Good book!
- De Judy Ellis en 04-15-18
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The Team That Changed Baseball
- Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates
- De: Bruce Markusen
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
In The Team That Changed Baseball: Roberto Clemente and the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates, veteran baseball writer Bruce Markusen tells the story of one of the most likable and significant teams in the history of professional sports. In addition to the fact that they fielded the first all-minority lineup in major league history, the 1971 Pirates are noteworthy for the team's inspiring individual performances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The first All Black and Brown Baseball Line-up.
- De Matthew Tsien en 05-22-16
De: Bruce Markusen
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Homegrown
- How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up
- De: Alex Speier
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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 regular season games and then romped through the postseason, going 11-3 against the three next-strongest teams baseball had to offer. As Alex Speier reveals, the Sox’ success wasn’t a fluke - nor was it guaranteed. It was the result of careful, patient planning and shrewd decision-making that allowed Boston to develop a golden generation of prospects - and then build upon that talented core to assemble a juggernaut.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read if you like the Red Sox or baseball ops
- De Amazon Customer en 01-11-20
De: Alex Speier
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Big Hair and Plastic Grass
- A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
- De: Dan Epstein
- Narrado por: Dan Epstein
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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. For the millions of fans who grew up during this time, Big Hair and Plastic Grass serves up a delicious trip down memory lane.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent but biased
- De Andy en 02-25-21
De: Dan Epstein
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Fall from Grace
- The Truth and Tragedy of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
- De: Tim Hornbaker
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 10 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining and Educational
- De Colorfinger en 06-14-19
De: Tim Hornbaker
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Game Six
- Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime
- De: Mark Frost
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Best-selling author Mark Frost takes listeners back to the 1975 World Series in this thrilling account of the greatest baseball game ever played. The Reds and Red Sox endured three soggy days of inactivity to reach game six. But all that downtime could not prepare them for what happened when the skies finally cleared.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For the love of Baseball
- De Al en 03-23-10
De: Mark Frost
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Our Team
- The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball
- De: Luke Epplin
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 109
The riveting story of four men - Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige - whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who will like this book?
- De Brian L. Quarton en 04-03-21
De: Luke Epplin
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1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever
- De: Bill Madden
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Jackie Robinson heroically broke the color barrier in 1947. But how—and, in practice, when—did the integration of the sport actually occur? Bill Madden shows that baseball’s famous black experiment” did not truly succeed until the coming of age of Willie Mays and the emergence of some star players—Larry Doby, Hank Aaron, and Ernie Banks—in 1954. And as a relevant backdrop off the field, it was in May of that year that the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, that segregation be outlawed in America’s public schools.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Acumen bugaboo
- De steve finkelstein en 04-25-21
De: Bill Madden
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The Extra 2%
- How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First
- De: Jonah Keri
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 183
In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team's Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. By quantifying the game's intangibles, they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay an American League pennant. This is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No Strategies or Insight
- De Victor Luera en 10-11-12
De: Jonah Keri
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A Nice Little Place on the North Side
- Wrigley Field at One Hundred
- De: George Will
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
In A Nice Little Place on the North Side, leading columnist George Will returns to baseball with a deeply personal look at his hapless Chicago Cubs and their often beatified home, Wrigley Field, as it enters its second century. Baseball, Will argues, is full of metaphors for life, religion, and happiness, and Wrigley is considered one of its sacred spaces. But what is its true, hyperbole-free history?
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's EEE-lia, not Ah-LEE-ah
- De Shawcago en 04-25-16
De: George Will
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The Grandest Stage
- A History of the World Series
- De: Tyler Kepner
- Narrado por: Tyler Kepner
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It’s the place where legends are made, where celebration and devastation can hinge on a fly ball off a foul pole or a grounder beneath a first baseman’s glove. And there’s no one better to bring this rich history to life than New York Times national baseball columnist Tyler Kepner, whose bestselling book about pitching, K, was lauded as “Michelangelo explaining the brush strokes on the Sistine Chapel” by Newsday.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- De DavidF en 09-09-24
De: Tyler Kepner
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The Best Team Money Can Buy
- The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse
- De: Molly Knight
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 191
In 2012 the Los Angeles Dodgers were bought out of bankruptcy in the most expensive sale in sports history. Los Angeles icon Magic Johnson and his partners hoped to put together a team worthy of Hollywood. By most accounts they have succeeded, if not always in the way they might have imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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BOTH BOOK AND TEAM NEED TO BE BETTER
- De Ray en 09-06-15
De: Molly Knight
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The Last Innocents
- The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers
- De: Michael Leahy
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 15 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 43
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Reliving my youth
- De PJ en 05-24-17
De: Michael Leahy
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Got Your Number
- The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own
- De: Mike Greenberg, Paul Hembekides
- Narrado por: Mike Greenberg
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 47
ESPN personality ( Get Up and #Greeny) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partners with mega-producer Hembo to settle once and for all which legends flat-out own which numbers. In short essays certain to provoke debate between and amongst all generations, Greeny uses his lifetime of sports knowledge to spin yarns of the legends among the legends and tell you why some have claimed their spot in the top 100 of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love it
- De Burnie P. Gaeta en 11-15-24
De: Mike Greenberg, y otros
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Summer of '68
- The Season That Changed Baseball - and America - Forever
- De: Tim Wendel
- Narrado por: Mark Ashby
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by national tragedy and sweeping change. Opening Day was postponed and later played in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral. That summer, as the pennant races were heating up, the assassination of Robert Kennedy was later followed by rioting at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But even as tensions boiled over and violence spilled into the streets, something remarkable was happening in major league ballparks across the country. Pitchers were dominating like never before, and with records falling and shut-outs mounting, many began hailing ’68 as “The Year of the Pitcher".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Detroit Upsets St. Louis in 1968 World Series.
- De Matthew Tsien en 05-01-18
De: Tim Wendel
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Power Ball
- Anatomy of a Modern Baseball Game
- De: Rob Neyer
- Narrado por: Rob Neyer
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
The former ESPN columnist and analytics pioneer dramatically recreates an action-packed 2017 game between the Oakland A’s and eventual World Series champion Houston Astros to reveal the myriad ways in which Major League Baseball has changed over the last few decades.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Solid overview of Baseball in 2018
- De Tyler Burch en 11-21-18
De: Rob Neyer
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The Year of the Pitcher
- Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age
- De: Sridhar Pappu
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
The Year of the Pitcher is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in one of the greatest World Series contests ever, with the Detroit Tigers coming back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Cardinals in Game Seven of the World Series. In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together with the St. Louis Cardinals, embodied an entire generation's hope for integration at a heated moment in American history. Denny McLain, his adversary, was a crass self-promoter.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Misleading Title
- De Paul en 01-25-19
De: Sridhar Pappu
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A Band of Misfits
- Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants
- De: Andrew Baggarly
- Narrado por: Brian Troxell
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
For 53 years, San Francisco waited. Waited for a team like the 2010 Giants to come along. Waited for a team that could end a title drought that started in New York and carried on for more than five decades after a move to the West Coast. Waited for that one magical postseason run that could unleash more than a half-century of pent-up frustration. At long last, the 2010 Giants hopped on that magic carpet and made it happen. San Jose Mercury News beat reporter Andrew Baggarly captured the 2010 Giants' incredible run through the regular season, playoffs and World Series in his new book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relived that season!
- De jeff olson en 12-20-18
De: Andrew Baggarly