The Redheaded Outfield And Other Baseball Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Redheaded Outfield And Other Baseball Stories, credited to Zane Grey, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Redheaded Outfield And Other Baseball Stories by Zane Grey. Read in English by Warren Bergmann. It is a pleasure to present this collection of baseball stories — both exciting and hilarious, and with plenty of quirky characters — by Zane Grey, the master of the Western fiction genre. Much of the baseball language in these stories may sound unfamiliar to us. For example, Grey uses the word “swing” in reference to the pitcher’s windup, not the motion of the bat. I hope fans will enjoy discovering many other “new” baseball terms from 100 years ago. Five of the stories (sections 2 - 6) are closely related. They are all about the same fictional minor league team, they share a cast of characters, and they are all narrated by the team’s manager. Not only that, but, taken together, they form a single complete story arc of both a baseball season and a double romance. Unfortunately, and for reasons mysterious to me, they are out of order in the book. If the listener wants to experience the saga of “The Rube” as a whole, I recommend listening to these sections in this order: 2-5-4-3-6. Some of the stories include stereotypical and offensive references to indigenous North Americans (which unfortunately persist in some form in our own time). I hope these historical representations of the attitudes of white Americans of the early 20th century can serve as opportunities for reflection and discussion. (Summary by Warren Bergmann)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Redheaded Outfield And Other Baseball Stories
• Author credits: Zane Grey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 6:17:15

Catalogue topics

• humor
• baseball

Track guide

1. 01 - The Redheaded Outfield — 39:27
2. 02 - The Rube — 36:02
3. 03 - The Rube's Pennant — 35:55
4. 04 - The Rube's Honeymoon — 38:00
5. 05 - The Rube's Waterloo — 34:14
6. 06 - Breaking Into Fast Company — 31:06
7. 07 - The Knocker — 37:15
8. 08 - The Winning Ball — 28:11
9. 09 - False Colors — 31:14
10. 10 - The Manager of Madden's Hill — 39:36
11. 11 - Old Well-Well — 26:15

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