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The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
Credits: Audio Download | MP3 CD
In The Natural, Bernard Malamud has raised all the passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball to its ordained place in mythology.
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The Glory of Their Times
by Lawrence Ritter
Credits: Audio CD
This new audio compilation of the original interviews is great news for baseball fans and anyone who loves oldtime tales of America's national pastime.
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Playing With the Enemy
by Gary Moore
Credits: Audio Download
In 1940, at just 15 years old, small-town baseball star Gene Moore was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who saw in him the potential to become one of the great catchers of all time.
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Moneyball
by Michael Lewis
Credits: Audio Download
I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story...
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Joe DiMaggio: The Yankee Clipper
by Geoffrey Giuliano
Credits: Audio Download
For decades baseball great Joe DiMaggio was the very definition of cool and class in the midst of the unparalleled fury of his stellar career.
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Shoeless Joe
by W.P. Kinsella
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
Shoeless Joe is the soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based, though like most such relationships, the book is far better than the screen adaptation.
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Ted Williams
by Leigh Montville
Credits: Audio Download
He was one of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time....
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The Big Show
by Keith Olbermann
Credits: Audio Download
From World Sports Headquarters in historic Bristol, Connecticut, comes the audiobook that's more colorful than Dennis Rodman's hair.
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The Big Bam
by Leigh Montville
Credits: Audio Download
Babe Ruth's larger-than-life personality defines the legendary hero in this entertaining biography by the bestselling author of "Ted Williams."
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Joe DiMaggio
by Richard Ben Cramer
Credits: Audio Download
In the hard-knuckled '30s, Joe DiMaggio was the immigrant boy who made it big. He was the dominant star in the New York Yankees dynasty...
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Wait Till Next Year
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Credits: Audio Download
Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era....
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When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!
by Yogi Berra
Credits: Audio CD
Yogi Berra is one of America's most beloved baseball players of all time, known as much for his wit and humor as he is for his exploits with the New York Yankees...
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Tales from the Dugout
by Mike Shannon
Credits: Audio Download
This memorable collection of anecdotes about America’s national pastime will take you into the dugout, clubhouse, and press box with some of the game’s greatest players and storytellers.
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Game of Shadows
by Mark Fainaru-Wada
Credits: Audio Download
This audiobook is the window into the underground world of cheating at the highest levels, which set off a frenzy of activity and hand-wringing in the offices of Major League Baseball and Congress.
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Babe Ruth: An American Legend
by Babe Ruth
Credits: Audio Download
A lovable big bear of a man, Babe Ruth personified the unbounded ambition and playful enthusiasm of the young, eternally hopeful nation from which he sprang.
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Why I Love Baseball
by Larry King
Credits: Audio Download
Larry King is a true-blue baseball fanatic....
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Take Me Out to the Ballgame: A History of Baseball in America
by Timothy B. Shutt
Credits: Audio Download
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.
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7: The Mickey Mantle Novel
by Peter Golenbock
Credits: Audio Download
In Peter Golenbock's shocking and revealing first novel, Mickey Mantle tells the hidden story of his life as a baseball hero, and asks for forgiveness from his friends and family.
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
by Jonathan Eig
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century.
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Luckiest Man
by Jonathan Eig
Credits: Audio Download
Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse, baseball's strongest and most determined superstar, struck down in his prime by a disease that now bears his name. But who was Lou Gehrig, really?
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Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game
by George Vecsey
Credits: Audio Download
Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the New York Times. In Baseball, he recounts the history of America’s national pastime.
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A Woman's Guide to Baseball
by Paula Duffy
Credits: Audio Download
Is your favorite guy spending more time talking to the 'tube' than to you? Would you like to score with that nice looking single at the sports bar?
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Emperors and Idiots
by Mike Vaccaro
Credits: Audio Download
The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. For a hundred years, no two teams have locked horns as fiercely....
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Emperors and Idiots
by Mike Vaccaro
Credits: Audio Download
The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. For a hundred years, no two teams have locked horns as fiercely....
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NPR Driveway Moments: Baseball
by Neal Conan
Credits: Audio CD
Stories from the National Public Radio archives honor America's national pastime
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