Donate to LibriVox Thank a reader

LibriVox recordings are Public Domain in the USA. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws.

Download cover art Download CD case insert

A Ball Player's Career

Adrian C. Anson (1852 - 1922)

The biography of one of the greatest players that the game of baseball of his era, in his own words. "Cap" Anson, quite probably baseball's first superstar. - Summary by cavaet

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation

Language: English

Keyword(s): biography (338), memoir (98), baseball (22)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Chapter One: My Birthplace and Ancestry	Cavaet	00:09:45
Play 02	Chapter Two: Days at Marshalltown	Cavaet	00:12:06
Play 03	Chapter Three: Some Facts About the National Game	Cavaet	00:13:38
Play 04	Chapter Four: Further Facts and Figures	Cavaet	00:14:56
Play 05	Chapter Five: The Game at Marshalltown	Cavaet	00:13:35
Play 06	Chapter Six: My Experience at Rockford	Cavaet	00:13:33
Play 07	Chapter Seven: With the Atheltics of Philadelphia	Cavaet	00:13:16
Play 08	Chapter Eight: Some Minor Diversions	Cavaet	00:10:47
Play 09	Chapter Nine: We Ball Players Go Abroad	Cavaet	00:14:09
Play 10	Chapter Ten: The Argonauts of 1874	Cavaet	00:11:49
Play 11	Chapter Eleven: I Win One Prize and Others Follow	Cavaet	00:10:03
Play 12	Chapter Twelve: With the National League	Cavaet	00:12:17
Play 13	Chapter Thirteen: From Fourth Place to the Championship	Cavaet	00:14:43
Play 14	Chapter Fourteen: The Champions of the Early Eighties	Cavaet	00:13:43
Play 15	Chapter Fifteen: We Fall Down and Rise Again	Cavaet	00:16:27
Play 16	Chapter Sixteen: Ball-Players Each and Every One	Cavaet	00:13:05
Play 17	Chapter Seventeen: While Fortune Frowns and Smiles	Cavaet	00:13:10
Play 18	Chapter Eighteen: From Chicago to Denver	Cavaet	00:15:13
Play 19	Chapter Nineteen: From Denver to San Francisco	Cavaet	00:13:09
Play 20	Chapter Twenty: Two Weeks in California	Cavaet	00:16:06
Play 21	Chapter Twenty-One: We Visit the Hawaiian Islands	Cavaet	00:23:24
Play 22	Chapter Twenty-Two: From Honolulu to Australia	Cavaet	00:15:15
Play 23	Chapter Twenty-Three: With Our Friends in the Antipodes	Cavaet	00:15:56
Play 24	Chapter Twenty-Four: Ball Playing and Sight Seeing in Australia	Cavaet	00:15:44
Play 25	Chapter Twenty-Five: Afloat on the Indian Sea	Cavaet	00:14:48
Play 26	Chapter Twenty-Six: From Ceylon to Egypt	Cavaet	00:16:02
Play 27	Chapter Twenty-Seven: In the Shadow of the Pyramids	Cavaet	00:12:10
Play 28	Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Blue Skies of Italy	Cavaet	00:15:14
Play 29	Chapter Twenty-Nine: Our Visit to La Belle France	Cavaet	00:14:40
Play 30	Chapter Thirty: Through England, Scotland and Ireland	Cavaet	00:20:29
Play 31	Chapter Thirty-One: "Home, Sweet Home"	Cavaet	00:22:16
Play 32	Chapter Thirty-Two: The Revolt of the Brotherhood	Cavaet	00:15:39
Play 33	Chapter Thirty-Three: My Last Years on the Ball Field	Cavaet	00:17:13
Play 34	Chapter Thirty-Four: If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It	Cavaet	00:14:28
Play 35	Chapter Thirty-Five: How My Winters Were Spent	Cavaet	00:09:20
Play 36	Chapter Thirty-Six: With the Knights of the Cue	Cavaet	00:14:09
Play 37	Chapter Thirty-Seven: Not Dead, But Sleeping	Cavaet	00:11:17
Play 38	Chapter Thirty-Eight: L'Envoi	Cavaet	00:24:27

LibriVox

Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain

Browse the catalog

Listen/Download (help?)

Production details

Links

A Ball Player's Career