Take Me Out to the Ballgame Audiobook
Take Me Out to the Ballgame Audiobook
- Timothy B. Shutt
- Recorded Books
- 2008-09-12
- 8 h 4 min
Summary:
Baseball continues to be celebrated while ‘America’s Country wide Pastime’ for several hundred and fifty years, and recalls what, in least in retrospect, seems to be an earlier, more innocent age- long summer afternoons and sandlot ball, fresh rural atmosphere or brownstone stoops. Partly, this is because most of those who love the game performed as children and followed a common bigleague teams as kids. It is not a game one increases out of, and once smitten, most football lovers remain accurate, passing on about Consider Me Out to the Ballgame their appreciate of the game to their children. And the overall game itself is certainly ever youthful, the succession of football heroes unbroken: Honus Wagner to Ty Cobb to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, to Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, to Henry Aaron, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays, to Mike Schmidt, and Cal Ripken, and Tony Gwynn, to the stars of the present. Cy Teen, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, and Bob Gibson, each generation has its heroes and cherishes the storage of those gone before as an ongoing counterpart to daily life-through the War and the Unhappiness, through the fifties and sixties, etc for this day. This program can be a special event of baseball’s wealthy past-and of a game stronger than ever.