Our Game, Charles C. Alexander
Our Game, Charles C. Alexander
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Our Game
An American Baseball History

Author: Charles C. Alexander

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 14 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/25/2012

Synopsis

This entertaining history blends anecdote, incident, and analysis as it chronicles the story of our national pastime. Alexander covers the advent of the first professional baseball leagues, the game’s surge in the early twentieth century, the Golden Twenties and the Gray Thirties, the breaking of the color line in the late forties, and the game’s expansion to its current status as a premier team sport. He describes changing playing styles and outstanding teams and personalities but also demonstrates the many connections between baseball—as game, sport, and business—and the evolution of tastes, values, and institutions in the United States.

About Charles C. Alexander

Charles C. Alexander, formerly a distinguished professor of history at Ohio University, is the author of a number of books, including Our Game: An American Baseball History and the celebrated biographies Ty Cobb and John McGraw.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen on May 17, 2021

An unusual style for Le Carre in that it is essentially a love story intertwined with a spy-gone-wrong affair. It is also told in the first person which I am not normally a fan of. The story is told in a series of vignettes that travel back and forth through time and it is testimony to the quality o......more

Goodreads review by Bev on December 17, 2009

I can't believe that there are people on GR who found this book boring. What is to bore with Le Carré's beautiful writing? What is to bore with a book that teaches so much about the forgotten people, the Ingush, and the intrigues and treachery of Russian politics? What is to bore with the master of......more

Goodreads review by Razvan on September 16, 2024

Strange or not, it depends on what you're expecting from a novel in order to give an opinion. So, it's Our Game a policier? Not. A thriller? Perhaps not. A metaphor book? So and so. A love story? Only partially. A hermetic one? That's for sure. So, pull the line and count.........more

Goodreads review by Seth on April 04, 2008

There was one spot in this book which recalled for me the pleasure I used to find in LeCarre's Smiley novels. But the rest of it did little for me. Immediately afterwards I picked up an Elmore Leonard mystery, and Leonard's lean, pared-down style made LeCarre's wordy and elliptical manner seem a har......more

Goodreads review by Marc on May 15, 2008

"FURIOUS IN ACTION...TAKES US BY THE NECK ON PAGE ONE AND NEVER LETS GO." That's how the Chicago Sun Times describes this book. My own impression: "BORING". The tale could be a good one if fleshed out more, but plot plods along with very little action or suspense. To call this book thrilling would b......more

Quotes

“Charles Alexander’s history of baseball is authoritative and a pleasure to read. I tremendously enjoyed it.” Lawrence Ritter, author of The Glory of Our Times

“This coherent narrative history captures the glory, the excitement, and the occasional scandal that characterize the country’s favorite sport. Entertaining and informative without flogging readers with a plethora of numbing statistics, Alexander’s style should appeal to fans and students of baseball lore. A book that should readily lend itself as a tool in teaching modern American social and cultural history.” School Library Journal

“A commendable blend of people and events.” Library Journal

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