Baseball

De: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns

Narrado por: Ken Burns

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The companion to Ken Burns’s magnificent PBS television series—updated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, two-part "Tenth Inning" directed with Lynn Novick.

The authors of the acclaimed and best-selling The Civil War, Jazz, and The War turn to another uniquely American phenomenon: baseball. Geoffrey C. Ward's and Ken Burns’s moving and fascinating history of the game goes beyond stolen bases, double plays, and home runs to demonstrate how baseball has been influenced by, and has in turn influenced, American life.

The audiobook covers every milestone of the game, from the rules drawn up in 1845 by Alexander Cartwright to the American League’s introduction of the designated hitter in 1973; from the 1924 Negro World Series to Jack Roosevelt Robinson’s major-league debut; from the first curve ball in 1867 to Nolan Ryan’s seventh and last no-hitter in 1991.

This new edition brings the authors’ monumental work into the 21st century: steroids, home-run records, the rise of Latino players, the long-awaited Red Sox World Series victory, and so much more. Baseball is an audiobook that speaks to all Americans.

©2010 Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns (P)2010 Random House Audio

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“A rich concoction of narrative, essays....In so many ways you are reminded that rooting for baseball is like breathing.” (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times)

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5 out of 5 stars

De Sheila en 09-23-22

Perfection

The game will go on forever and it’s so wonderful to know Ken Burns will continue to record it’s history as only he can.Thank you.

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5 out of 5 stars

De Charlie Smith en 05-09-15

love

Outside perspective of Ken Burns I like the soft voice describing a hard game . brilliance

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4 out of 5 stars

De Richard en 05-18-11

Just OK

Ken Burns is a tremendous documentarist...not such a tremendous reader. If you like baseball, you'll greatly enjoy the anecdotes and various tidbits that make up this generally entertaining tale. The book covers virtually the entire history of the game is such a relatively short time, but you don't feel shortchanged at the end. It was quite difficult at times, however, to not get distracted by the narrators (Burns) somewhat high-pitched, slow, sterile reading style.

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5 out of 5 stars

De Gregory Gonzalez en 07-29-22

Teary eyed

Beautiful memories and poetically delivered nuisances that tug at your heart. Relived some great moments. Wish you were here Dad….or so good to spend time with you.

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4 out of 5 stars

De Wendy W en 09-30-23

Abridged Version

I have the companion book and the narration omitted many important stories from the first 9 innings, especially considering that most of the 10th inning appears to be included...

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4 out of 5 stars

De David Munoz en 02-15-16

Abridged

Wish it wasn't. Still worth listening to, but the documentary is longer than the audio book.

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5 out of 5 stars

De MCH en 06-03-20

Great Information

This was an amazing book for learning new facts about baseball. Listening to various stories and remembering where I was when they took place. I loved it!

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5 out of 5 stars

De edward m. williams en 02-23-15

Nations past time

Well done story concisely hitting the highs and lows of our nations past time. Perhaps a different deeper voice each inning to break the monotony of Mr.Burns voice.

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5 out of 5 stars

De petevila en 11-06-19

Nice recap

a condensed version of the documentary, but still worth the listen .. It doesn't have quite the same romantic presentation as does the video, sans Peter Coyote's voice and choice of music, but the information presented is still worth a visit as a companion to the video

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2 out of 5 stars

De Preston en 01-09-21

You Kind of Missed Someone

I understand the controversy around Ty Cobb, but to pretty much remove him from the book version of Baseball is unacceptable. He was the game's first superstar and perhaps the best hitter who ever lived--you can't ignore that.

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