Ted Brooks Sound

09/24/2025

So I am now willing to begrudge the grudge so many Europeans who live in Port cities have against all the tourism. Here's what it looks like in Dubrovnik. This city only allows 3 cruise ships in the port at one time. Still...it gives me a weird feeling to be part of it. Still, life goes on.

11/01/2021

I've got a new audiobook that's just been released. It's called "Come As You Are: Meditation and Grief", written by G Scott Graham. Let me know if you'd like a review copy.

G. Scott Graham first started practicing vipassana meditation in 1996. In addition to his daily practice, Scott joined 10-day courses twice each year, whenev...

05/04/2021

Here's my latest just released audiobook. "New Wine Transportation Company"
Free review copies are available...just ask me

Can a holy mission change Springville for the better?Springville Community Christian Church is nestled in the foothills of North Carolina in a quiet, Mayberr...

08/06/2020

Here's an audiobook you need to listen to.

These are the end times. We hear this sentiment in one way or another from various sources, from the fundamentalist preacher, to the scientist warning us of ...

06/02/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25vg6Y7BFE

Bucky Veil was a professional baseballer who played the game in the early years of the 20th century, a time when baseball was beginning to evolve into America's national pastime. As a 22-year-old rookie with the 1903 Pittsburg Pirates, he pitched in the first world series of modern major league baseball, thus witnessing firsthand an important milestone in the history of the sport. No less an authority, Hall of Famer Honus Wagner predicted that Bucky would be "a great star". Bucky is the story of baseball in the Deadball Era, told from the perspective of the author's grandfather Fred "Bucky" Veil and other professionals who played a game that was very different from that of the modern era. It was a game that emphasized strategy over power. Babe Ruth and the long ball were a decade or more in the future and relied upon speed, smart, aggressive base-running, good bunting technique, and timely hitting - all designed to advance runners into positions from which they could score.
Get the audiobook here
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Bucky Veil was a professional baseballer who played the game in the early years of the 20th century, a time when baseball was beginning to evolve into Americ...

05/19/2020

A fascinating study of the paternalistic attitude assumed by baseball executives to stop Babe Ruth from becoming bigger than the game.
Hear a sample at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2virW7zqeI

purchase from Audible at https://tinyurl.com/ybmekcls

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popu...

05/16/2020

Here's my newest audiobook. A great story about how baseball held back Babe Ruth to stop him from their biggest fear - a player bigger than the game. Whether you're a baseball fan or not, this is a fascinating story

Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge ...

02/04/2020

Here's my latest audiobook - "Lische", written by Wynn Johnson.
hear the sample at
The book, a fictionalized story based on true events, covers more than 150 years of the history of the Johnson family (and Kentucky), starting with Lische, who settled in the wilds of Kentucky in 1858 and covers the period of time from pre Civil War through the industrial revolution, the depression, the coal boom etc. through the Viet Nam war.

Lische, the second book by Wynn Johnson, reads like a novel but the people we meet and the events that take place were very real. The author relates in detai...

12/10/2019

Here's a sample of my newest audio book - "From Prairie Farmer To Entrepreneur" The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture

https://tinyurl.com/u8a5mrg

This meticulously researched book tells the story of Midwestern agriculture during a period of epochal change in farm technology, farm management, and farm life. The hard work, tight communities, and values that had characterized the family farm were replaced by large corporate enterprises with massive acreages, high-tech methods, and global outlooks. While many decry this change as loss, Nordin and Scott find a net gain. This is their richly detailed account of one of the great transformations in American life.

This meticulously researched book tells the story of Midwestern agriculture during a period of epochal change in farm technology, farm management, and farm l...

09/10/2019

Here I am with Heidi J. Osselaer, author of "Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight"...still one of my all favorite audiobooks. Heidi was the keynote speaker at this year's Western History Symposium. She's a wonderful person.

09/06/2019

My newest audiobook is a look at the river, the towns and the people of Wisconsin's Chippewa waterway. Written by Richard D. Cornell, a storyteller par excellence, this audiobook will take you right to northern Wisconsin. Free review copies are available. Send requests to [email protected].

Find this audiobook here: https://tinyurl.com/y4qpv2ol Inspired by August Derleth’s seminal book The Wisconsin, Richard D. Cornell traveled the Chippewa Rive...