The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B0CB9BHC63 | 2024 | 19 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 574 MB

A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten heroes, spanning the game's founding to the early 1940s. Baseball is "the New York game" because the city is where the white lines were first drawn, where a bunt was first laid, and where the curve ball was first thrown. It's also where the superstars first emerged, and where social progress in the sport was first made. With nuance and depth, historian Kevin Baker brings this all back to life: the games–World Series in 1905, 1919, 1932; the players–Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig; the coaches and managers–John McGraw, "Foxy Ned" Hanlon, Clark Griffith; and even the writers, reporters, and spectators. The result is a portrait of baseball's most transformative years amidst New York City's evolution from a heaving, stinking, fantastic city to a global capital.