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    Take Me Out to the Ballgame
    Take Me Out to the Ballgame
    Take Me Out to the Ballgame
    Audiobook8 hours

    Take Me Out to the Ballgame

    Written by Timothy B. Shutt

    Narrated by Timothy B. Shutt

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    About this audiobook

    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. It is not a game one grows out of, and once smitten, most baseball lovers remain true, passing on their love of the game to their children. And the game itself is ever young, the succession of baseball heroes unbroken: Honus Wagner to Ty Cobb to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, to Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, to Henry Aaron, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays, to Mike Schmidt, and Cal Ripken, and Tony Gwynn, to the stars of the present. Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, and Bob Gibson, each generation has its heroes and cherishes the memory of those gone before as an ongoing counterpart to daily life-through the War and the Depression, through the fifties and sixties, and so on to the present day. This course is a celebration of baseball's rich past-and of a game stronger than ever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 12, 2008
    ISBN9781436172820
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      When Timothy Shutt discusses the philosophy of play in general or baseball in particular, or the history of baseball and the fields on which it's played or the contributions and attributes of individual players he's fascinating. But he says baseball is particularly amenable to statistical analysis, and I found all the statistics pretty snooze inducing.