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Title: Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Barry Bonds

Author: Barry Bonds

Narrator: Ann Liguori

Format: Original Recording

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-09

Publisher: Made for Success Inc.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

But Barry Bond's legendary career has been overshadowed by his role in the professional baseball's ever-deepening steroids scandal. Barry is the son of former major league All-Star Bobby Bonds. This candid interview was conducted just after he joined the San Francisco Giants in the '90s, when his dad was coach. Bonds' accomplishments place him among the greatest baseball players of all-time.

Barry is interviewed by Ann Liguori, award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting with a celebrated career that spans two decades. Liguori has interviewed some of the most legendary sports personalities, drawing out their success stories, their opinions on a variety of issues, and their love of the game.

Editorial Reviews:

Famed leftfielder Barry Bonds played 22 seasons of pro baseball. The son of an all-star major league player, Bonds inherited talent that he cultivated through disciplined practice. Having honed his skill, Bonds embarked on a storied career full of spectacular statistics. Despite his successes Bonds career ended in scandal over charges of steroid abuse and related acts of perjury and obstruction of justice. This scandal cost Bonds entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Barry Bonds the now-discredited player relates his life and achievements to interviewer Ann Liguori. Liguori knows baseball but her scope extends well beyond sports, and her questions unearth genuinely interesting answers from Bonds.

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Title: Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Whitey Ford

Author: Whitey Ford

Narrator: Ann Liguori

Format: Original Recording

Length: 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-09

Publisher: Made for Success Inc.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Ford is interviewed by Ann Liguori, award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting with a celebrated career that spans two decades. Liguori has interviewed some of the most legendary sports personalities, drawing out their success stories, their opinions on a variety of issues, and their love of the game.

Editorial Reviews:

Ann Liguori, whose award-winning sports broadcasting career has spanned 20 years, interviews baseball legend Whitey Ford for her Audio Hall of Fame series. Liguori's cheery and gracious manner draws Ford, who was voted into the Hall of fame in 1974, into speaking candidly about his days playing among New York Yankee legends such as Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, and Joe DiMaggio. Liguori's interview feels more like an affable conversation between two engaging characters as Ford charms with his amusing and revealing reminiscences, prompted on by Liguori's insightful comments and questions.

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Title: Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Jim 'Catfish' Hunter

Author: Jim "Catfish" Hunter

Narrator: Ann Liguori

Format: Original Recording

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-09

Publisher: Made for Success Inc.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Hunter ended his career winning 224 games and earning five World Series rings. This interview talks about those great moments and the players he shared them with. It also reveals how Charles Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, gave Hunter the nickname "Catfish".

Hunter is interviewed by Ann Liguori, award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting with a celebrated career that spans two decades. Liguori has interviewed some of the most legendary sports personalities, drawing out their success stories, their opinions on a variety of issues, and their love of the game.

Editorial Reviews:

The late Hall of Famer Jim "Catfish" Hunter retired from baseball with a remarkable five World Series rings, a Cy Young Award, a perfect game, and 224 wins - all by the age of 33. In this candid interview with esteemed sports journalist Ann Liguori, the North Carolina pitcher spins yarns on everything from the origins of his unusual nickname to his contentious relationship with high-handed owners George Steinbrenner and Charlie Finley. Hunter's career with the A's and Yankees serves as a backdrop for broader changes in baseball. Whether he's recalling westward expansion, the advent of free agency, or the media savvy Finley's gimmicky penchant for mustaches and brightly colored uniforms, Hunter's story is that of baseball in the modern era.

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Title: Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Phil Niekro

Author: Phil Niekro

Narrator: Ann Liguori

Format: Original Recording

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-09

Publisher: Made for Success Inc.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Phil is interviewed by Ann Liguori, award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting with a celebrated career that spans two decades. Liguori has interviewed some of the most legendary sports personalities, drawing out their success stories, their opinions on a variety of issues, and their love of the game.

Editorial Reviews:

Pioneer radio talk show host Ann Liguori conducts a wide-ranging interview with baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro. The award-winning broadcaster and one of the greatest knuckleballers of all time discuss his life and 24-year major league career in another of her series of talks with great sports personalities. "Knucksie" talks movingly of his father teaching him the pitch that allowed him to escape Ohios coal fields, remembers fondly what life was like as a five-time Brave all-star, touches on what it is like to hold the record with fellow knuckler Joe for most pitching wins by brothers, and shares anecdotes about playing for Yankee boss George Steinbrener.

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Title: Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Brooks Robinson

Author: Brooks Robinson

Narrator: Ann Liguori

Format: Original Recording

Length: 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-09

Publisher: Made for Success Inc.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Brooks is interviewed by Ann Liguori, award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting with a celebrated career that spans two decades. Liguori has interviewed some of the most legendary sports personalities, drawing out their success stories, their opinions on a variety of issues, and their love of the game.

Editorial Reviews:

Sports radio and television powerhouse Ann Liguori interviews Baseball Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson in this installment of Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame, a series in which she has talked to all manner of sports personalities about their personal and professional histories.

Liguori is a personable and highly experienced interviewer, interweaving smart questions with anecdotes about the sports almost mythical history. Perhaps just as important, shes a true sports fan, and listening to her conversation with third-baseman Robinson, who played for the Baltimore Orioles for upwards of two decades, will prove a real joy for anyone who loves that greatest of all American games.

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Title: Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Bobby Bonds

Author: Bobby Bonds

Narrator: Ann Liguori

Format: Original Recording

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-09

Publisher: Made for Success Inc.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Catch Bobby Bonds as he talks about his relationships with the key people in the sport.

Bonds is interviewed by Ann Liguori, award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting with a celebrated career that spans two decades. Liguori has interviewed some of the most legendary sports personalities, drawing out their success stories, their opinions on a variety of issues, and their love of the game.

Editorial Reviews:

In this illuminating and intimate interview, famed talk show host and sports correspondent Ann Liguori interviews Bobby Bonds, former Giants player and father of Barry Bonds. Liguori has been an expert athletic pundit for years, acting as host and producer of Sports Interview with Ann Liguori, which has broken records for female-run sports shows. Her experience shows in her conversation with Bonds, as she manages both to stay in the background and to draw out her subject as he discusses coming full circle with the Giants in his return to the team as a hitting and first base coach. The interview is bittersweet, for Bonds passed away from cancer in 2003.

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Title: Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Duke Snider

Author: Duke Snider

Narrator: Ann Liguori

Format: Original Recording

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-09

Publisher: Made for Success Inc.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

In this candid interview Snider also talks with warmth and humility about the day the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Snider is interviewed here by Ann Liguori, award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting with a celebrated career that spans two decades. Liguori has interviewed some of the most legendary sports personalities, drawing out their success stories, their opinions on a variety of issues, and their love of the game.

Editorial Reviews:

One of the top sports interviewers in the game, Ann Liguori, interviews the "The Silver Fox", "The Duke of Flatbush", baseball Hall of Famer, Duke Snider. This charming interview, recorded when the great Dodger was 69 years old, ranges pleasurably over the golden age of Dodger baseball from Jackie Robinson to the 1959 move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, and of course to Sniders two World Series wins against the New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox, respectively. Along the way, Snider muses on subjects that will be considered gems to any baseball enthusiast: his 1964 plate appearance against his old teammate, Sandy Koufax, and why good hitters have lower I.Q.s than good pitchers.

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Title: Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Pete Rose

Author: Pete Rose

Narrator: Ann Liguori

Format: Original Recording

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-09

Publisher: Made for Success Inc.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Three years later, his brilliant career was mired in a gambling scandal. This interview discusses his many different roles in sports, as a player, a manager and most recently as a radio broadcaster.

Here Rose is interviewed by Ann Liguori, award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting with a celebrated career that spans two decades. Pete's feisty style comes across when Ann asks him about the gambling scandal and what he feels his chances are in ever getting into Baseball's Hall of Fame. Liguori has interviewed some of the most legendary sports personalities, drawing out their success stories, their opinions on a variety of issues, and their love of the game.

Editorial Reviews:

In Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Pete Rose, sports broadcaster Ann Liguori interviews baseball player Pete Rose on everything from his dreams of being in the hall of fame to being booed by fans. Liguori pulls no punches as she asks Rose the tough questions about his past gambling and tax evasion charges. Rose, in his deep voice trained for the radio, asks fans to view him with empathy, as a person with emotions and not a machine. Liguori's performance as an interviewer is engaging and feisty. This interview is a great deal of fun to listen to, especially for baseball fans.

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Title: Ann Liguori's Audio Hall of Fame: Goose Gossage

Author: Goose Gossage

Narrator: Ann Liguori

Format: Original Recording

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-09

Publisher: Made for Success Inc.

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Between 1972 and 1994, Gossage played 22 seasons for nine different teams, spending his best years with the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres. His wild facial hair and a gruff demeanor only added to the intimidation of his blistering fastball. By the end of the 1987 season he trailed only Rollie Fingers in major league history in career saves. His eight All-Star selections as a reliever were a record until recently, and Goose Gossage was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008.

Gossage is interviewed here by Ann Liguori, award-winning luminary in sports broadcasting with a celebrated career that spans two decades. Liguori has interviewed some of the most legendary sports personalities, drawing out their success stories, their opinions on a variety of issues, and their love of the game.

Editorial Reviews:

Sports Broadcaster Ann Ligouri's skill as an interviewer is evident in this audio as she elicits success stories, failures, famous moments, and political views from baseball star Goose Gossage. Baseball fans will love this audiobook version of the famous interviews reflective of Gossage's 22-year career. Ligouri's cheeful voice and thoughtful questions are met with modesty by Gossage, along with an obvious love of the game. The interviews are compiled here with clips offamous games and of cheering crowds, creating an atmosphere of immediacy and excitement.

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Title: Today's Authors Series

Subtitle: Michael Davis

Author: Michael Davis

Narrator: Caroll Spinney, Michael Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-09

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels

Publisher's Summary:

Listeners will learn about Spinney's contributions to the creation and history of the media masterpiece and pop culture landmark TV series, Sesame Street. Spinney also discusses, among other things, recollections of his early days on TV, the creation of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, and, of course, working with Muppet's creator Jim Henson.