Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Baseball History

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Baseball inspired millions of people in the United States. It evolved from the old bat and ball games which used to be played in England during the 18th century. The immigrants who came to settle in North America were the ones responsible to bring this game to the Americans. Eventually they came up with the modern version of the game and by the... Read more

History of Basketball

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the history of mankind, sports occupy a very centre place in defining the era and cultures of a concerned time period. In ancient times, several sports sprouted up that have still existed, and some still keep themselves active. The Olympics has been with us for the last 3 millennia ever since Greeks ran the plain farms to engage the invading... Read more

History of Football

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Tracy Tupman

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Football is also known as association football or soccer. The game is played across the globe in more than 200 countries by 250 million players. The sport is tremendously prevalent among the people; children and adults and is also deemed to be the most exciting games. The more famous and prestigious matches attract up to 100,000 people and more... Read more

Sport Business

By: Introbooks Team

Narrated by: Cyrus Nilo

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This e-book is to analyze the sports features such as product and business. The sports assume new positions and face new challenges in the context of the sports entertainment industry. Issues such as the current sports market economy and the values ​​of sports product become a priority in management and sports marketing process. Thus, making it... Read more

The Greatest Speeches of Sports Legends

By: SpeechWorks

Narrated by: SpeechWorks

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Greatest Speeches of Sports Legends is a historical audio tribute to those facing the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Speeches range from post-event interviews to Hall of Fame inductions. This collection features some of the greatest athletes of all time, including Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Dale Earnhardt, and many... Read more

Course Correction

By: Ginny Gilder

Narrated by: Janis Ian

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Wild meets The Boys in the Boat, a memoir about the quest for Olympic gold and the triumph of love over fear. Ginny grew up in an era where girls mostly stayed on the sidelines in the gym–as observers and cheerleaders, not competitors and champions. Raised in a family where business acumen was treasured as the ultimate trophy, she toed the line... Read more

How Far Can You Go?

By: John Maclean

Narrated by: Mark Engelhardt

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspirational memoir by a man who became an elite wheelchair athlete after suffering a catastrophic spinal injury and who finally walked again 25 years after his accident.

After two years of intense physical therapy following his crippling accident, John Maclean set a new course for himself when his father encouraged him to embrace his new... Read more

Finley Ball

By: Nancy Finley

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When Charlie Finley bought the A’s in 1960, he was an outsider to the game—an insurance businessman with a larger-than-life personality. He brought his cousin Carl on as his right-hand man, moved the team from Kansas City to Oakland, and pioneered a new way to put together a winning team. With legendary players like Reggie Jackson, Catfish... Read more

Back From the Dead

By: Bill Walton

Narrated by: Bill Walton

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“An elegiac yet exuberant new memoir” (The New York Times Book Review)—Bill Walton’s New York Times bestselling memoir about his recovery from debilitating physical injury and how lessons from John Wooden at UCLA (and the music of the Grateful Dead) inspired his darkest hours.

In February 2008, Bill Walton suffered a spinal collapse so... Read more

Kings of Queens

By: Erik Sherman

Narrated by: Darrel J. Caneiro

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1986, the bad guys of baseball won the World Series. Now, Erik Sherman, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Mookie, profiles key players from that infamous Mets team, revealing never-before-exposed details about their lives after that championship year…as well as a look back at the magical season itself.   
 
Darryl Strawberry, Doc... Read more

The Mindful Athlete

By: George Mumford

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Jordan credits George Mumford with transforming his on-court leadership of the Bulls, helping Jordan lead the team to six NBA championships. Mumford also helped Kobe Bryant, Andrew Bynum, and Lamar Odom and countless other NBA players turn around their games. A widely respected public speaker and coach, Mumford is sharing his own story... Read more

Dig Deep

By: J. C. Watts Jr.

Narrated by: J. C. Watts Jr. & Mirron Willis

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dig Deep, J.C. Watts offers seven powerful maxims that have kept him grounded throughout his roller-coaster career from star college quarterback to U.S. Congressman. The first black Republican ever elected to a leadership position in Congress, Watts resisted the rat-race of Washington and eventually declined re-election. His seven simple... Read more

*Catch a Star

By: Tamika Catchings & Ken Petersen

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When all she wanted was to fit in, Tamika Catchings stood out and felt left out, never knowing one day she'd stand out--as a basketball superstar and an inspiration. She faced being set apart by her hearing loss, separated from family, living up to high expectations, and the pain and discouragement of debilitating physical injury. Yet she... Read more

The Breaks of the Game

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 17 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller, David Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been NBA champions.
More than six years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered... Read more

The Legends Club

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 15 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends—University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano—by the king of college basketball writers, #1 New York Times bestseller John Feinstein

On March 18, 1980, the immensely powerful Duke basketball... Read more

You Win in the Locker Room First

By: Mike Smith & Jon Gordon

Narrated by: Mike Smith & Jon Gordon

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NFL head coach Mike Smith lead one of the most remarkable turnarounds in NFL history. In the season prior to his arrival in 2008, the Atlanta Falcons had a 4–12 record and the franchise had never before achieved back-to-back winning seasons. Under Smith’s leadership, the Falcons earned an 11–5 record in his first season and would go on to become... Read more

Nacidos para correr

By: Christopher McDougall

Narrated by: Humberto Solórzano

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Escucha este relato fascinante que no solo conquistará tu mente sino que también inspirará tu cuerpo cuando descubras que el secreto de la felicidad está en tus pies y que todos hemos nacido para correr. Repleto de personajes inolvidables, increíbles hazañas atléticas y ciencia de vanguardia, Nacidos para correr es una aventura épica que... Read more

Indentured

By: Joe Nocera & Ben Strauss

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

 “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”
 
In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those ques­tions in a controversial New York Times... Read more

How Bad Do You Want It?

By: Matt Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Matt Fitzgerald

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatest athletic performances spring from the mind, not the body. Elite athletes have known this for decades and now science is learning why it's true. In his fascinating new book How Bad Do You Want It?, coach Matt Fitzgerald examines more than a dozen pivotal races to discover the surprising ways elite athletes strengthen their mental... Read more

Altes vom Hexxer - Geschichten aus 50 Jahren Handball-Bundesliga (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Erik Eggers & Oliver Lücke

Narrated by: Peter Lohmeyer & Andreas Thiel

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Kegelbahn als Ablöse für drei Handballer, "Schneewittchens Rache" an Heiner Brand, Howard Carpendale statt Krokodil, "Räuber Hotzenplotz" stiehlt den DHB-Pokal. Kuriose Geschichten, die ebenso Teil der spannenden 50-jährigen Geschichte der Bundesliga sind, wie die Liga-Gründung, die goldene Ära des VfL Gummersbach, die Erfindung der... Read more

Fortify Your Life

By: Tieraona Low Dog

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Readily find your way to better health with this guide to nutritional supplements and holistic healthHealth-conscious consumers read nutritional labels, but it’s nearly impossible to get the nutrients we need with diet alone. To get the USDA-recommended daily quota of vitamin D, for example, you need to eat 15 eggs or 26 sardines; of iron, 414... Read more

Who Was Jackie Robinson?

By: Gail Herman

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

As a kid, Jackie Robinson loved sports. And why not? He was a natural at football, basketball, and, of course, baseball. But beyond athletic skill, it was his strength of character that secured his place in sports history. In 1947 Jackie joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the long-time color barrier in major league baseball. It was tough... Read more

Retox

By: Lauren Imparato

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Practical health and wellness strategies from Laura Imparato, creator of the I.AM.YOU yoga studioRest to rage. Meditate to work. Cleanse to get dirty.Enough preaching about self-deprivation. No more striving for bodily purity. Who has the patience—or the time!—for strict dietary restrictions and hours of meditation? Let’s get real; these tactics... Read more

This is Your Brain on Sports

By: L. Jon Wertheim

Narrated by: Sam Sommers & Keith Szarabajka

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them.  Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers to take readers on a wild ride into the inner world of sports.  Through the... Read more