This is Audible: Post-season edition

October 18, 2007

The podcast for This is Audible features baseball this week. In addition to a lengthy interview with Joshua Prager, author of The Echoing Green, and a reading by Roger Angell of his piece “Game Six” at a Symphony Space program, the podcast runs down the top ten baseball audio books. Not all the titles are new; the top three are excerpted briefly:

  1. Moneyball, by Lewis
  2. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports (Visit the book’s Web site here)
  3. Three Nights in August, by Bissinger
  4. Faithful, by King and Onan
  5. Ted Williams: The Biography of An American Hero, by Montville
  6. Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball, by Costas
  7. Coach, by Lewis
  8. The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, by Montville
  9. The Summer Game, by Angell
  10. Emperors and Idiots, by Vacarro

The podcast is available through iTunes.

Game of Shadows authors Fainaru-Wada and Williams discussed their release on Fora.tv:

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