Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Impact Player

By: Bobby Richardson

Narrated by: Bill DeWees

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"I want to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee." —Bobby Richardson. Bobby Richardson played alongside Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron, and Yogi Berra during one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, and he remains to this day the only player from a losing team ever to be named World Series MVP. Impact... Read more

Retreats - Fast Track to Freedom - A Guide for Leaders and Practitioners (AYP Enlightenment Series Book 10)

By: Yogani

Narrated by: Yogani

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

Since Advanced Yoga Practices (AYP) was started in 2003, the number of people utilizing this open source system of full-scope yoga practices has grown steadily around the world. It has evolved from being primarily an internet resource to a shelf-full of books, and now to increasing “real-world” activities including meditation groups, hands-on... Read more

Wallace

By: Jim Gorant

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, Wallace is a champion; but in the summer of 2005, he was living in a shelter, a refugee from a suspicious pit bull–breeding operation. Then Andrew "Roo" Yori entered the picture. A scientist and shelter volunteer, Roo could immediately see that Wallace was something special. While on his honeymoon, Roo learned that Wallace was about to be... Read more

Paterno

By: Joe Posnanski

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From America’s premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno and the story of America’s love affair with football.

Joe Paterno believed that football was a way to teach young men how to live. He coached at Penn State for 62 years. In the course of his years as a head coach, his teams won 409 games, a... Read more

Wherever I Wind Up

By: R.A. Dickey & Wayne Coffey

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseball insight in this memoir about his unlikely journey to the big leagues.An English Lit major at the University of Tennessee, Dickey is as articulate and thoughtful as any professional athlete in any sport-and proves it page after page, as he... Read more

Martina Navratilova In Her Own Words

By: Martina Navratilova

Narrated by: Martina Navratilova

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating collection of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archive, Martina Navratilova talks about her life and career as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

The interviews included are: BBC Radio interview (first broadcast 1 June 1978, featuring Gerald Williams); BBC Radio interview, (first broadcast 6 July 1979,... Read more

On the Right Track

By: Marion Jones & Maggie Greenwood-Robinson

Narrated by: Marion Jones

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a decade, Marion Jones was hailed as the "the fastest woman on the planet." At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, she became the first woman ever to win five medals at one Olympics. That same year, the Associated Press and ESPN named her Athlete of the Year. She was on the cover of Vogue and Time. She seemed to have it... Read more

Iron Man

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1995, Cal Ripken, Jr. succeeded in toppling baseball's most unbreakable streak of 2,130 consecutive games played. He has also won the 1982 Rookie of the Year Award, two American League MVP awards, an All-Star Game MVP award, two Gold Gloves, and a World Series title.This is the story of Junior's ascent to superstardom. What was it like... Read more

You’re Out and You’re Ugly, Too!

By: Durwood Merrill

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most colorful and beloved characters in major league baseball, Durwood Merrill talks about the game’s many personalities and gives an up-close and personal account of life on the diamond, in the clubhouse, and beyond. With over two decades of laugh-out-loud anecdotes and controversial opinions, Merrill makes the call on managers,... Read more

Eight Men Out

By: Eliot Asinof

Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1919, American headlines proclaimed the fix and cover-up of the World Series as “the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America.” In this painstaking review, Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the scandal, in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation’s leading gamblers to throw... Read more

Paterno

By: Joe Paterno

Narrated by: Joe Vincent

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are the Paterno principles: the straight word from the curious quarterback and English major who went from Brooklyn to Brown to Penn State, who lost his way to law school and became instead America’s best-loved coach.With the help of a first-rate biographer and friend, Bernard Asbell, Joe Paterno tells his story, sharing his life’s... Read more

Blue Water, Green Skipper

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Stephen Collins

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea?

Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his... Read more

Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder

By: Dave Barter

Narrated by: Simon Whistler

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder is an anthology of thirty articles written by an amateur cyclist over a period of ten years. The collection exhibits the madness that engulfs those who descend into cycling obsession, celebrating the average cyclist living in a world defined by the pros. The writings range from fanciful musings concerning... Read more

Running for My Life

By: Lopez Lomong & Mark Tabb

Narrated by: Brandon Hirsch

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. It is the American dream come true and a stark reminder that saving one can help to save thousands more.Lopez Lomong chronicles his inspiring ascent from a... Read more

Hey Rube

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sports, politics, and sex collide in Hunter S. Thompson’s wildly popular ESPN.com columns. From the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and father of “Gonzo” journalism comes Hey Rube.Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a... Read more

Among The Managers

By: Robert Peston

Narrated by: Robert Peston

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a world in which teamwork and goals are more than just motivational phrases, and moving the goal posts will get you sent off the pitch. Football management has come a long way since men in sheepskin coats bestrode the land. The BBC's business editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on this multimillion pound industry and, with managers like... Read more

Invictus

By: John Carlin

Narrated by: Gideon Emery

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament-the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was... Read more

Complete Astanga Yoga Primary Series

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this program recorded live in New York City, Beryl guides the listener through a 95 minute program that contains the Complete Astanga Yoga Primary Series (as taught to her by Norman Allen and Sri K.P. Jois). Read more

Beginner's Instructional Power Yoga

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Beryl Bender Birch, spiritual teacher, yoga therapist, and author of Power Yoga, Beyond Power Yoga, and Boomer Yoga (Sellers Publishing) has been an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness since l971. With degrees in philosophy and comparative religion, Beryl has traveled extensively in India, has been teaching the classical system... Read more

Intermediate Workout

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Beryl Bender Birch, spiritual teacher, yoga therapist, and author of Power Yoga, Beyond Power Yoga, and Boomer Yoga (Sellers Publishing) has been an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness since l971. With degrees in philosophy and comparative religion, Beryl has traveled extensively in India, has been teaching the classical system... Read more

Primary Series of Astanga Yoga for New Practitioners

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Beryl Bender Birch, spiritual teacher, yoga therapist, and author of Power Yoga, Beyond Power Yoga, and Boomer Yoga (Sellers Publishing) has been an avid student of yoga and the study of consciousness since l971. With degrees in philosophy and comparative religion, Beryl has traveled extensively in India, has been teaching the classical system... Read more

Everyday Mindfulness - Meditation for Beginners

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyday Mindfulness: Lecture and Meditation for Beginners by Beryl Bender Birch
Yoga pioneer and best-selling author Beryl Bender Birch offers a clear and compelling introduction to the history and evolution of mindfulness meditation in this exceptional recording ideal for beginning meditators. In Everyday Mindfulness: Meditation for Beginners,... Read more

Everyday Mindfulness - A Meditation Practice

By: Beryl Bender Birch

Narrated by: Beryl Bender Birch

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Yoga pioneer and best-selling author Beryl Bender Birch offers listeners a guided meditation, with a beautiful musical accompaniment, as part of her Everyday Mindfulness series. This recording is an excellent follow-up to Birch’s Meditation for Beginners recording, or can be used by more advanced practitioners who do not need the instruction... Read more

Abnehmen durch Essen - Abridged

By: Cornelia Mertens

Narrated by: Dagmar Berghoff & Joachim von Hein

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Abnehmen durch Essen" ist anders. Es ist keine Diät, es werden keine Kalorien gezählt. Auch ein Stück Kuchen, Süßigkeiten, Fast Food, Fertiggerichte und Co. sind erlaubt - und Sie nehmen trotzdem ab. Das Programm wird seit mehreren Jahren von der Brücke e.V. in Hamburg erfolgreich eingesetzt und wurde jetzt durch eine wissenschaftliche... Read more