Becoming Mr. October
2014
DAISY Sound Recording
Baseball all-star and World Series champion Reggie Jackson chronicles his ups and downs in the New York Yankees organization, focusing on two formative years, 1977 and 1978. Details his often-troubled relationships with fellow players, owner George Steinbrenner, and manager Billy Martin, and the unrelenting pressure of the media spotlight. 2013.
Item Details
Edition: Daisy edition.
Description:
- 1 DAISY disc (audio (10 hours, 12 minutes)) : sound ; 12 cm
- 4 3/4 in.
- digital DAISY
- audio file Daisy
Target Audience Note: Male narrator. NLS/BPH
Other Title: Becoming Mister October
Notes:
- Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials.
- Narrated by: Jack Fox.
- Digital talking book. 1 level and 32 navigation points. Digitally mastered.
- Recorded from: First edition New York : Doubleday, [2013] 9780385533119
- System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software.
- DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps.
- Description based on cassette record.
Contents:
- Bull in the ring
- Birmingham
- Gunslingers
- Leaving Charlie O.
- "Like a guy trying to hustle a girl in a bar"
- "Any specific player"
- Billy
- The hole in the doughnut
- The article
- Boston
- Eye exam
- Calling my dad
- Hiding in the bathroom
- Pinch hitter
- "Another chapter in the tumultuous life of the 1977 Yankees"
- "That's three, mom!"
- Sitting in the rocking chair
- Reggie! Bar
- Here we go again
- Forcing the issue
- "One's a born liar"
- "A very simple game for children"
- Catching Boston
- "I hit it to the Prudential Building"
- "Finding a prize in the weeds"
- Epilogue: "Nothing gold can stay."
LCCN: 2014991823
Control Number: 3175164
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2014.Subjects:
- Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
- Daisy talking books.
- Jackson, Reggie.
- New York Yankees (Baseball team)
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