Iron Man, Harvey Rosenfeld
Iron Man, Harvey Rosenfeld
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Iron Man
The Cal Ripken, Jr., Story

Author: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrator: Ian Esmo

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2012


Synopsis

In 1995, Cal Ripken, Jr. succeeded in toppling baseball's most unbreakable streak of 2,130 consecutive games played. He has also won the 1982 Rookie of the Year Award, two American League MVP awards, an All-Star Game MVP award, two Gold Gloves, and a World Series title.This is the story of Junior's ascent to superstardom. What was it like playing baseball with a father as manager and a brother as a double-play combination? How did his father's firing and his brother's trade affect him? What made him choose the strike over the Streak? His story captures the grit and determination it took to become one of the greatest shortstops ever to play the game of baseball.

About Harvey Rosenfeld

Harvey Rosenfeld, a lifelong baseball fan, is the author of several highly regarded biographies, including Raoul Wallenberg: Angel of Mercy and Roger Maris: A Title to Fame, one of the American Library Association’s Best Books of 1991. Rosenfeld is the founding editor of Martyrdom and Resistance, a bimonthly publication that focuses on the Holocaust.

About Ian Esmo

Ian Esmo is an audiobook narrator who specializes in athlete and sports biographies.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles on January 30, 2019

Since this book was written and published after the end of the 1994 season, it does not include the final chapters on Ripken’s career, which ended in 2001. When his consecutive game streak ended, it was at 2,632, over 500 more than that of the legendary Gehrig. Even more amazing is that the next hi......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on June 20, 2017

Interesting, but other books about him seem better.......more