Baseball!
Written by Roger Angell, A. Bartlett Giamatti, John Updike and
Narrated by Roger Angell, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Jack Davidson and
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About this audiobook
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Roger Angell and A. Bartlett Giamatti’s
"Play by Play"
- John Updike’s
"Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu" read by Jack Davidson
- Ted Williams' miraculous Fenway farewell.
- Rolfe Humphries’
"Polo Grounds"
read by Fritz Weaver
- Robert Francis’
"Pitcher" and "Base Stealer"
read by Arthur French
- Robert Fitzgerald’s
"Cobb Would Have Caught It"
read by Jonathan Hadary
- Roger Angell’s
"Game Six"
read by the author
- The classic description of the greatest game ever played.
- Yusef Komunyakaa’s
"Glory"
read by Isaiah Sheffer
- W.P. Kinsella’s
"The Thrill of the Grass"
read by John Shea
- Longing for the good old days, a true baseball fan starts a quiet revolt against artificial turf.
- Ken Kalfus’
"The Joy and Melancholy Baseball Trivia Quiz"
read by Jack Davidson
- A sophisticated comic flair, describes a number of entirely fictional baseball records.
- T.C. Boyle’s
"The Hector Quesadilla Story"
read by Jerry Zaks
- The funniest baseball story ever written – after 30 innings, the game still ain’t over!
- A. Bartlett Giamatti’s
"The Green Fields of the Mind"
read by the author
- The reasons why we'll always love baseball.
Roger Angell
Roger Angell (b. 1920) is a celebrated New Yorker writer and editor. First published in the magazine in 1944, he became a fiction editor and regular contributor in 1956; and remains as a senior editor and staff writer. In addition to seven classic books on baseball, which include The Summer Game (1972), Five Seasons (1977), and Season Ticket (1988), he has written works of fiction, humor, and a memoir, Let Me Finish (2006). He edited the short story collection Nothing But You: Love Stories from The New Yorker(1997). In 2011, he was awarded the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. Angell lives in New York City.
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Reviews for Baseball!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic. One of the best baseball books. The stories were amazing, and fun, and I caught a case of nostalgia.