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I Never Had It Made
Author: Jackie Robinson
A straightforward yet inspiring story of what it took to be the first man of color to break into the white world of professional sports. Jackie Robinson's story...more
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Bang the Drum Slowly (Dramatization)
Author: Eric Simonson
A humorous and poignant story that follows a fictional major league baseball team through a summer season when the team comes together after one of the players ...more
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The Great Chase (Unabridged)
Author: Harvey Rosenfeld
"Thomson hits a long drive. It's going to be, I believe...The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! Bobby Thomson hit one into the lower deck o...more
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Heads-Up Baseball: Playing the Game One Pitch
Author: Tom Hanson and Ken Ravizza
What does it mean to play heads-up baseball? A heads-up player has confidence in his ability, keeps control in pressure situations, and focuses on one pitch at ...more
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Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Author: Peter Golenbock
Before the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the most colorful and beloved teams in baseball. In Bums, best-selling aut...more
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Ted Williams: The Biography of an American He
Author: Leigh Montville
He was one of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend, and a lightnin...more
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Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, & the St
Author: Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance
This audiobook is the window into the underground world of cheating at the highest levels, which set off a frenzy of activity and hand-wringing in the offices o...more
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Author: Michael Lewis
I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it - before I had a story to fall i...more
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Ted Williams: The Biography of an American He
Author: Leigh Montville
He was one of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend, and a lightnin...more
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Bat Boy: My True Life Adventures Coming of Ag
Author: Matthew McGough
Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. H...more
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and base...more
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Heat (Unabridged)
Author: Mike Lupica
Twelve-year-old Michael Arroyo lives in the shadows of Yankee Stadium, home of his heroes, but a place that might as well be on a different continent since he c...more
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The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Ea
Author: Lawrence S. Ritter
Baseball's Golden Age comes alive through the voices of men who were there. Selected from the original tapes on which Lawrence S. Ritter based his classic book ...more
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Rogers Hornsby (Unabridged)
Author: Charles C. Alexander
In the 1920s Rogers Hornsby was the National League's foremost star, its biggest since Honus Wagner, and its principal answer to the American League's Babe Ruth...more
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The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
Author: Leigh Montville
Babe Ruth was more than baseball's original superstar. For 85 years, he has remained the sport's reigning titan. He has been named Athlete of the Century...more...more
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Get in the Game: Eight Elements of Perseveran
Author: Cal Ripken, Jr. with Donald
Baseball's all-time Iron Man, Cal Ripken, Jr., retired from baseball in 2001 after breaking countless records, including Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive gam...more
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Baseball in '41 (Unabridged)
Author: Robert W. Creamer
It was the year that Joe DiMaggio set his 56-game hitting streak, that Ted Williams batted .406, that the Dodgers and the Yankees battled each other in a classi...more
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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak,
Author: Buzz Bissinger
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author captures baseball's essence in this account of a dramatic three-game series viewed through the eyes of legendary St. Louis Car...more
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Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life (Unabridge
Author: Michael Lewis
There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child's mind; it's as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever. There was ...more
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When the Boys Came Back: Baseball in 1946 (Un
Author: Frederick Turner
In the aftermath of the global conflict of World War II, few events in the United States were as eagerly awaited as baseball's spring training. But the national...more
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