Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Wonder Girl

By: Don Van Natta

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then Babe attempted to conquer golf. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive... Read more

Muhammad Ali

By: Jack Rummel

Narrated by: Ian Eugene Ryan

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Muhammad Ali's considerable skills as a boxer earned him the world heavyweight championship, a title that he lost and regained twice. But it was the force of his personality and his unwavering personal convictions that made him a lightning rod of the turbulent 1960s and elevated him to the status of the most recognized, controversial, and... Read more

Through My Eyes

By: Tim Tebow

Narrated by: Tom Wayland

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

FormerUniversity of Florida star quarterback, 2010 first-round draft pick for theDenver Broncos, and devout Christian Tim Tebow tellsthe story of his faith, his life, and his career in football in Through MyEyes. Written with Nathan Whitaker, the New York Times bestsellingcoauthor of Quiet Strength, with Tony Dungy, Through My Eyes givesfans a... Read more

Death Clutch

By: Brock Lesnar

Narrated by: Bob Dunsworth

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The “baddest man on the planet,” undisputed, three-time WWE Champion and current UFC World Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesner, shares his true personal story of determination, domination, and survival in Death Clutch. A raw, no-holds-barred memoir from one of the most popular—and polarizing—figures in sports entertainment and professional mixed... Read more

The Extra 2%

By: Jonah Keri

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens - the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball... Read more

Those Guys Have All the Fun

By: Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller

Narrated by: James Andrew Miller, Matt McCarthy & Joan Baker

Length: 27 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact with their favorite teams.
It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. Today, ESPN is arguably the most... Read more

I'm Here To Win

By: Chris McCormack

Narrated by: Howard Brunner & Chris McCormack

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In I'M HERE TO WIN, Chris "Macca" McCormack opens his playbook and reveals everything it takes-mind, body, and spirit-to become a champion. Now he shares the story of his triumphs and the never-say-die dedication that has made him the world's most successful triathlete.

In 2010, at the age of 37, Macca beat the odds and won the Ford Ironman World... Read more

Shoeless Joe

By: W. P. Kinsella

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Shoeless Joe, the soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based, is more than just another baseball story.W. P. Kinsella captures the spiritual dimension that baseball represents for its most determined devotees in this tale on love and the power dreams have to make people come alive.“Shoeless Joe” was the great Joe Jackson,... Read more

The Compleat Angler

By: Charles Cotton & Izaak Walton

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"It would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read it," wrote essayist Charles Lamb some years after this novel was first published in 1653. Of course, The Compleat Angler is much more than just a 17th century "how-to" guide to catching and cooking fish. So disarming is Mr. Walton's quiet enthusiasm for the countryside and all the various... Read more

Babe Ruth

By: Kal Wagenheim

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Babe Ruth grew from his adolescence in a Baltimore orphanage into a baseball superstar and national treasure. But he was also a product of his time, the colorful 1920s and 1930s. A sparkling collage of narratives from "the Babe", those who knew him, and the media makes this an exceptional biography as well as a work of cultural history. Read more

Stan Musial

By: George Vecsey

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When baseball fans voted on the top twenty-five players of the twentieth century in 1999, Stan Musial didn’t make the cut. This glaring omission—later rectified by a panel of experts—raised an important question: How could a first-ballot Hall of Famer, widely considered one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, still rank as the most... Read more

The House That Ruth Built

By: Robert Weintraub

Narrated by: Fred Berman

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Robert Weintraub vividly recreates the pivotal year that transformed the New York Yankees into the legendary franchise of today. Overshadowed by the New York Giants, the hapless Yankees played their home games at the ballpark of their cross-town rivals. But when Yankee Stadium was completed in 1923, Babe Ruth bounced back from a... Read more

Golfing with Dad

By: David Barrett

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Golfing With Dad is a heartwarming collection of golf's best players' favorite memories with their fathers and how those memories shaped them not only as players but as the men and women they are today. Many professional golfers have been greatly influenced by their fathers, and some of the very best have contributed interviews to this special... Read more

Play Like You Mean It

By: Rex Ryan

Narrated by: Dan Lauria

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

No football fan will want to be without the book that delivers pure, unfiltered Rex Ryan—head coach of the New York Jets and one of the most popular, outspoken, well-liked, and widely respected personalities in the National Football League.

Rex Ryan is known for his exuberance . . . and Play Like You Mean It explores every aspect of Ryan’s... Read more

The Man in the White Suit

By: Ben Collins

Narrated by: Ben Collins

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's iconic racing driver and so much more – including what it's like to thrash an Aston Martin DBS, train for the Army and face the terror of Jeremy Clarkson's underwear… When the Black Stig disappeared off the end of an aircraft carrier in 2003, we were... Read more

Evel

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville, this riveting and definitive new biography pulls back the red, white, and blue cape on a cultural icon—and reveals the unknown, complex, and controversial man known to millions around the world as Evel Knievel.

Evel Knievel was a high-flying daredevil, the father of extreme sports, the... Read more

The Wild Rover

By: Mike Parker

Narrated by: Mike Parker

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject – footpaths and the history of land ownership. Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our cultural landscape and why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds... Read more

Bottom of the 33rd

By: Dan Barry

Narrated by: Dan Barry

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bottom of the 33rd is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough.” —Jane Leavy, author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax From Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history—a tale celebrating not only the robust... Read more

River Monsters

By: Jeremy Wade

Narrated by: Jeremy Wade

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade is well known for his extremely popular River Monsters program, the most successful show in Animal Planet history. Whether he's tracking fearsome monsters like the goliath tiger fish or gargantuan brutes like the freshwater stingray, Wade sifts through the mythology surrounding these creatures to separate... Read more

Founding Gardeners

By: Andrea Wulf

Narrated by: Antonia Bath

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. • “Illuminating and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review

For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions:... Read more

Branch Rickey

By: Jimmy Breslin

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The idea of integrating baseball began as a dream in the mind of Branch Rickey. In 1947, as president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, he defied racism on and off the field to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, changing the sport and the nation forever. Rickey's is the classic American tale of a poor boy from Ohio whose... Read more

When Pride Still Mattered

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 28 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.

More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high... Read more

Willie Mays

By: James S. Hirsch

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 27 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling, authorized, “enormously entertaining and wide-ranging” (The Seattle Times) biography of the late, great Willie Mays.

Willie Mays (1931–2024) was arguably the greatest player in baseball history, revered for the passion he brought to the game. He began as a teenager in the Negro Leagues, became a cult hero in New... Read more

Pujols

By: Scott Lamb & Tim Ellsworth

Narrated by: Wes Bleed

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

After a decade starring for the St. Louis Cardinals, Albert Pujols is already compared with names in the highest reaches of baseball’s pantheon: Ruth, Gehrig, Aaron, Mays. Slugging his way toward the Hall of Fame, Pujols has raised the game’s standard for greatness almost beyond any statistical measure. But the standard by which Pujols measures... Read more