Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark Audiobook (Free)

In this deeply engaging book, philosopher and baseball fan Alva Noë explores the many unexpected ways that baseball is actually a philosophical kind of game. For example, he ponders how observers of baseball are less interested in what happens, than in who is responsible for what goes on; every action receives praise or blame. To place it yet another way, in baseball-as in the law-we decide what happened based on that is in charge of what happened. Noë also explains the inquisitive activity of about Infinite Baseball: Records from a Philosopher in the Ballpark keeping rating: a score card isn’t merely a record of the game, like a video saving; it is an account of the overall game. Football requires that accurate fans make an effort to tell the storyplot of the overall game, in real time, since it unfolds, and thus actively take part in its creation.

Some argue that baseball is fundamentally a game about numbers. Noë’s wide-ranging, thoughtful observations display that, to the contrary, baseball isn’t only a windowpane on language, tradition, and the nature of human actions, but can be intertwined with deep and fundamental individual truths. The reserve ranges from the type of umpiring and the function of quick replay, to the nature of the hit zone, from the rampant usage of surgery to controversy encircling performance enhancing drugs. Throughout, Noë’s observations are amazing and provocative. Infinite Football is a reserve for the true baseball fan.