In Scoring Position, Bob Ryan
In Scoring Position, Bob Ryan
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In Scoring Position
40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair

Author: Bob Ryan, Bill Chuck

Narrator: Pat Grimes, Chris Lutkin, Pete Cross

Unabridged: 11 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/12/2022

Synopsis

Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he's attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season. It's a deeply personal tradition still going strong at more than 1,400 games and counting. The tattered scorebooks he's filled are worn from age, travel, and countless summer days, but their grids and scrawled symbols tell the stories of milestones, rivalries, rare historic achievements, and more. In Scoring Position captures the incomparable spirit of baseball, with its infinite possibilities and madcap anomalies. Ryan, alongside baseball historian and statistician Bill Chuck, has scoured his scorecard archives for the most singular events—a switch-hitter being hit by a pitch from both sides of the plate in the same game; a player batting for the cycle off four different pitchers; even back-to-back pinch-hit home runs with two outs in the 9th. Featuring some of the game's biggest names and wildest scenarios, this is a fascinating romp through baseball history, exuding a pure zeal for this sport that fans of all teams will recognize in themselves.

About Bob Ryan

Bob Ryan was a sportswriter for The Boston Globe and a four-time winner of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association National Sportswriter of the Year Award. He retired in 2012 after 44 years on the job. In 2015, he received a PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing. He is the author of Scribe: My Life in Sports.

About Bill Chuck

Bill Chuck is a baseball writer and researcher. With Jim Kaplan, he is the author of Walkoffs, Last Licks, and Final Outs (Baseball’s Grand and Not-So-Grand Finales).

About Pat Grimes

Pat Grimes is an experienced voice actor. When not recording, he can be found writing, playing guitar, singing, traveling, or doting on his small dog, Charlie. Born in Los Angeles, he now makes his home in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

About Chris Lutkin

Chris Lutkin has been an actor, a director, a writer, and a teacher for over thirty years. He has narrated several audiobooks including The Early Stories of Philip K. Dick, 12 Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, and The Red Badge of Courage. He currently resides in Detroit with his wife, Heather, and their rescue dog, Buckaroo.

About Pete Cross

Pete Cross is an award-winning audiobook narrator and engineer who earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A multiple Earphones Awards winner and Audie finalist, he was nominated for a SOVAS award for his narration of Moby Dick and received the 2022 Audie Award for Ryan La Sala’s Be Dazzled and the 2023 Odyssey Award for Ryan La Sala’s The Honeys.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard on August 13, 2022

any time you can put Randy Kutcher into a title name, I'm in. The cover artwork @ToddRadom made this one jump off the shelf for me. A lot of fond memories of undermentioned players like Troy O'Leary brought back some good memories.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on July 13, 2022

I loved the premise of this book. Boston-based sportswriter Bob Ryan has always been compelled to keep score of every baseball game he has attended. He helped create this book by selecting certain games from his scorebooks through the years and commenting on what made the game interesting to him. Fe......more

Goodreads review by Russ on August 31, 2022

I'm sorry to say that I'm disappointed with this book. I heard Bob Ryan talk on the radio one day about and thought this was a cool idea and went out and bought it thinking I could read this in between other books, read it leisurely. Those things remain true. What I didn't know was just how boring th......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on December 29, 2022

You need to be a hardcore baseball fan and a lover of statistics to appreciate this book. As such, I loved it. Bob Ryan is a very well-known national sportswriter based in Boston. He keeps score of every baseball game he attends and has kept all of them: 1,400 scorecards. This book is about the most......more

Goodreads review by Diane on January 23, 2025

I let out a massive sigh after finishing this book. It was SO CLOSE to getting 4 stars for me, but then I read the last chapter. Going in, I knew the writers had a Boston bias and I was fine with that because before the final chapter they had done a great job at covering games across the league. I d......more

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