Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Season on the Brink

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: John Feinstein

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

Decades after it spent weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, A Season on the Brink remains the most celebrated basketball book ever written—an unforgettable chronicle of his year spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach Bob Knight.

Granted unprecedented access to legendary coach Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers... Read more

Toughness

By: Jay Bilas

Narrated by: Jay Bilas

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The popular ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke player looks at the true meaning of toughness.

If anyone knows tough, it’s Jay Bilas. A four-year starter at Duke, he learned an incomparable work ethic under coach Mike Krzyzewski, battling against the greatest college players in the game. After playing professionally overseas for several... Read more

Trading Bases

By: Joe Peta

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games—with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it.

After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job. He found a new one but lost that, too, when an ambulance... Read more

The Ghost Runner

By: Bill Jones

Narrated by: Clive R. Anderson

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Furious stewards gave chase. The crowd roared. A legend was born. Soon the world would know him as "the ghost runner," John Tarrant, the extraordinary man whom nobody could stop. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1950s, he'd been paid £17 expenses. When he wanted to run, he was banned... Read more

Earn the Right to Win

By: Tom Coughlin

Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspirational guide for leaders by the two-time Super Bowl-winning coach of the New York GiantsPreparation is easy to praise but very hard to master. No modern coach, in any sport, understands that better than NFL veteran Tom Coughlin. He led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories (2008 and 2012) with his system of relentless... Read more

Sum It Up

By: Pat Head Summitt & Sally Jenkins

Narrated by: Sally Jenkins

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the... Read more

Finding Moosewood, Finding God

By: Jack Perkins

Narrated by: Jack Perkins

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass. Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins disappeared from the public eye and moved with his wife, Mary Jo,... Read more

The Power of Negative Thinking

By: Bob Knight

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking, a classic bestseller, has inspired an optimistic perspective for millions of Americans. Now, in an inspirational and entertaining rebuttal, the legendary basketball coach Bob Knight explains why “negative thinking” will actually produce more positive results, in sports and in daily life.... Read more

Gun Guys

By: Dan Baum

Narrated by: Richard Kind

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is armed America—a land of machine-gun gatherings in the desert, lederhosened German shooting societies, feral-hog hunts in Texas, and Hollywood gun armories. Whether they’re collecting antique weapons, practicing concealed carry, or firing an AR-15 or a Glock at their local range, many Americans love guns—which horrifies and fascinates... Read more

Moe and Me

By: Lorne Rubenstein

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Globe and Mail golf columnist Lorne Rubenstein has authored multiple acclaimed books and had his work featured in major golf publications. Moe & Me is a riveting exploration of the life of Moe Norman, known for his unusual swing on the course - and his crippling insecurity and introverted nature off of it. Read more

Extreme Frontiers

By: Charley Boorman

Narrated by: David John

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Charley Boorman is back on his bike exploring the world's second largest country - home to some of the most stunning and challenging terrain known to man.

Canada is a country of extremes, and Charley knows all about pushing the limits. He goes dirt biking in New Brunswick, dives through old shipwrecks in Tobermory and rides along Butch Cassidy's... Read more

Baseball Forever!

By: Jason Turbow & John Miley

Narrated by: Bob Costas

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

John Miley has compiled the most comprehensive audio account of baseball history in existence—a vast and wildly entertaining assemblage of game tapes from throughout the sport's history. His archive contains classic moments, like the Shot Heard 'round the World, and amazing feats, like Carl Hubbell striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie... Read more

Denzel Washington

By: Anne Hill

Narrated by: J.D. Jackson

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Chelsea House Black Americans of Achievement series, this biography focuses on one of today's most talented and popular screen stars. Read more

Cameron Diaz

By: Anne Hill

Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This biography, from the Chelsea House Galaxy of Superstars series, traces the rise to fame of one of today's most popular movie stars. Read more

The Real Secret to Optimal Health

By: Anthony Galea

Narrated by: Ljuba Bogdanovich

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

World renowned sports medicine physician, Dr. Anthony Galea
reveals the secret to optimum mental and physical health. With Dr. Galea's background in science he helps the listener understand how their body works and how to reach its full potential.

You will learn:
• how to turn back the age clock by understanding how
spirituality, diet and exercise... Read more

Casey at the Bat

By: Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; the score stood four to two with but one inning more to play." Thus begins one of the most famous poems in American history: Ernest L. Thayer's Casey at the Bat. When the powerful Mudville baseball team enters the ninth inning of their game behind by two runs, things seem pretty grim.... Read more

Long Shot

By: Mike Piazza

Narrated by: Holter Graham & Mike Piazza

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestselling autobiography, baseball legend Mike Piazza takes readers into his exceptional and storied career—from the rumors and controversies to his proudest achievements.

In this remarkably candid autobiography, superstar Mike Piazza takes readers inside his life and career to show what it takes to make it to the major... Read more

Slim for Life

By: Jillian Michaels

Narrated by: Jillian Michaels

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Stop battling your weight and slim down for life with this no-nonsense, insider’s plan from America’s health, wellness, and weight-loss guru: Jillian Michaels. She has helped millions lose weight and feel great, and now she can help you, too.
 
Bestselling author and Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels swore she’d never write another diet... Read more

Solo

By: Hope Solo

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise."Hope Solo is the face of the modern female athlete. She is fearless, outspoken, and the best in the world at what she does: protecting the goal of the U.S.... Read more

The Road Back Home

By: Sid Waddell

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

'I had not lived in the former pit village of Lynemouth since 1961 but the winding road north from Newcastle will always be the same nostalgic highway, each twist charged with vivid memories and powerful emotions...'

So begins a story full of wonderful humour, emotional candour and hardy tales of tough times - a quietly epic family saga set amid... Read more

Lives of the Athletes

By: Kathleen Krull

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you have a favorite sports hero? If so, have you ever wondered about what kind of zany things things he or she likes to do when not competing? Have you ever wondered what the great athletes like to eat, or what they like to drink? For instance, it's a little-known fact that baseball great Babe Ruth relished the chance to wolf-down pickled... Read more

May I Be Happy

By: Cyndi Lee

Narrated by: Cyndi Lee

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

How can I help others grow and transform if I haven’t done it myself...?" Cyndi Lee asks in the opening pages of her memoir, May I Be Happy, where she makes a surprising revelation. In spite of her success in physically demanding professions - dancer, choreographer, and yoga teacher - Lee was caught in a lifelong cycle of repetitive... Read more

The Disaster Diaries

By: Sam Sheridan

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Sheridan has traveled the world as an amateur boxer and mixed martial arts fighter, worked as a professional wilderness firefighter, an EMT, a sailor, a cowboy at the largest ranch in Montana, and in construction under brutal conditions at the South Pole. If he isn't ready for the apocalypse and the fractured world that will likely ensue,... Read more

Francona: The Red Sox Years

By: Terry Francona & Dan Shaughnessy

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From famed baseball manager Terry Francona, a lively, unvarnished narrative of his tenure with the storied Boston Red Sox

From 2004 to 2011, Terry "Tito" Francona managed the Boston Red Sox, the most talked about, scrutinized team in all of sports. In Francona the legendary manager opens up for the first time about his eight years there, as they... Read more