Baseball Heaven, Peter Golenbock
Baseball Heaven, Peter Golenbock
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Baseball Heaven
Up Close and Personal, What It Was Really Like in the Major Leagues

Author: Peter Golenbock

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Unabridged: 11 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/05/2024


Synopsis

A behind-the-scenes look at baseball history, as told through timeless interviews with major leaguers

For fifty years, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has been interviewing some of the most fascinating figures in baseball. Their conversations are a journey back in time to the days of Ruth and Gehrig, Gehringer and Greenberg, Robinson and Reese, and Howard and Mantle, as they reflect on the sport's greatest moments and biggest issues.

In Baseball Heaven, Golenbock brings together for the first time the most historic and captivating of these conversations. The stories range from Elden Auker remembering the day Lou Gehrig told him he was sick to Albert Happy Chandler reflecting on his decision to allow Jackie Robinson into the big leagues, from Ralph Branca discussing the home run he gave up that cost the Dodgers the pennant to Del Webb talking about why he hired Casey Stengel and why he fired him.

Baseball Heaven is baseball history at its very best. It pulls back the curtain on the major leagues to reveal inside stories, intimate reminiscences, and the friendships and rivalries that make baseball America's Game.

About Peter Golenbock

Peter Golenbock, a graduate of NYU Law School, has written sixty-five books, ten of which have been New York Times bestsellers. In addition to his bestsellers about sports and with sports figures, he has also written Presumed Guilty with Jose Baez, the attorney for Casey Anthony, The Chairman, written with Jim Greer, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, and In The Country of Brooklyn, a book about the liberal strain emanating from there.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda

I am SO jealous of Peter Golenbock! For me, the golden days of baseball were the 1950’s - early 70’s and Golenbock has had some kind of relationship with what seems like all the major players from this era. It’s rare that the publisher blurb does a really good job at outlining the content but this o......more

Goodreads review by Patten

Peter Golenbock’s Baseball Heaven is his second compilation of player interviews he has gathered throughout his career, following 2022’s Whispers of the Gods. Golenbock features interviews with former playing legends such as Gary Carter, Elston Howard, Johnny Pesky, and the enigmatic Dock Ellis, as......more

In this important book Peter Golenbock has proved himself to be baseball's version of Studs Terkel as he has managed to persuade baseball greats from the last century to open up and provide their own detailed and unexpurgated accounts of their careers and the major incidents which they viewed and we......more