Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball Audiobook (Free)

From his perspective as a journalist and a genuine fan, Bob Costas, NBC’s award-winning broadcaster, shares his views in the forces that are diminishing the selling point of Major League Baseball and proposes realistic changes that may be made to protect and promote the game’s needs.

With this cogent–and provocative–book, Costas examines the growing financial disparities that have led to nearly two-thirds from the teams in Major League Baseball having without any chance of contending for about Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball the World Series. He argues that those that run baseball have missed the crucial difference between simple change and actual progress. And he presents a withering critique from the positions of both owners and players while providing insights over the wild-card program, the designated-hitter guideline, and interleague enjoy. Costas answers each problem he cites with an achievable strategy for rebuilding legitimate competition and rescuing enthusiasts from the causes which have diluted the pure joy of the overall game.

Well balanced by Costas’s unbridled appreciation for what he phone calls the “moments of authenticity” that may still make baseball uplifting, Fair Ball provides a vision of our national pastime as possible, a game that retains its traditional appeal while initiating meaningful changes that will allow it to thrive into the next century.