Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game Audiobook (Free)

Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the brand new York Occasions. In Football, he recounts the history of America’s nationwide pastime. Baseball has been around in a variety of forms for a large number of years, but in the last 200 years it has become an American organization. Growing from a sport played in open fields and in big town streets, baseball offers seen its talk about of innovators and detractors, heroes and villains. Vecsey information them all in the about Football: A History of America’s Favorite Video game scandalous Black Sox of 1919 and contemporary steroid abusers to icons like Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and the countless underdogs that arrived of nowhere to capture the imaginations of supporters everywhere. Much like each Modern Library Chronicle, Vecsey’s Football is certainly a concise history filled with information and stories that will appeal to first year and veteran supporters alike. Narrator Alan Nebelthau’s warm tone of voice punctuates every one of the wit and appeal of Vecsey’s prose. Football: A History of America’s Preferred Game is an invitation to [Vecsey’s] house for Sunday dinner. The pace is more relaxed, the meal much bigger, the result as wonderful as you suspected it would be.-Leigh Montville