The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball’s Power Brokers Audiobook (Free)

The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball’s last twenty years

In the fall of 1992, America’s National Pastime is within crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time ever sold. The owners are at war with one another, their decades-long struggle with the players has converted America against both edges, and the players’ growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game’s very foundation.

It really is a tipping stage for baseball, a crucial about The Game: Inside the Key World of Main League Baseball’s Power Agents instant in the game’s history that catalyzes challenging for power by 3 strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. It’s their uneasy alliance at the end of decades of struggle that pulls the game back from your brink and becomes it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches them all.

This is actually the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals–with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Tag McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and so many more.

Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a sensational achievement: a rigorously reported book as well as the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive account of how an enormous struggle for force becomes disaster into baseball’s Golden Age.