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