Why We Love Baseball A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski, Ellen Adair

eAudio - 2023

NEW YORK TIMES bestsellerWinner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the YearNational Sports Media Association Sports Book of the Year An NPR "Book of the Day"#1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again. Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays’s catch, Babe Ruth’s called shot, and Kirk Gibson’s limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters. But these are also moments raw with the humanity of the game, the unheral...ded heroes, the mesmerizing mistakes drenched in pine tar, and every story, from the immortal to the obscure, is told from a unique perspective. Whether of a real fan who witnessed it, or... more