Sports & Recreation audiobooks

The Punch

By: John Feinstein

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Tearing open the deepest wound in professional sports, Feinstein uncovers the secrets of the NBA before and after that fateful moment in December of 1977 whe the face of professional hoops was changed forever. It was a chilly December evening and the Los Angeles Coliseum was buzzing as the Lakers hosted the Houston Rockets. As two players,... Read more

The Long Ball

By: Tom Adelman

Narrated by: Richard Davidson

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes an exclusive interview with the author Critically acclaimed writer Tom Adelman crafts a dynamic re-telling of baseball's thrilling 1975 season. The year ended with the greatest World Series of all time, featuring a legendary home run by Boston catcher Carlton Fisk. From the preseason through the final game, Adelman gives a... Read more

NPR Driveway Moments Baseball

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories from the National Public Radio archives honor America's national pastime.<



Stories so compelling you'll stay in your car to hear them through—even if you're sitting in your own driveway. Peabody-winning Talk of the Nation host Neal Conan presents tales about the big leagues and the little, the fans in the stands, the players, the... Read more

The Glory of Their Times

By: Lawrence S. Ritter

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Oh, the game was very different in my day from what it's like today. I don't mean just that the fences were further back and the ball was deader and things like that. I mean it was more fun to play ball then." - Davy Jones

First published in 1966, The Glory of Their Times is a universally hailed classic. A loving look back at the way baseball... Read more

The Founding Fish

By: John McPhee

Narrated by: John McPhee

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Founding Fish is the shad, and John McPhee's veneration for it is both scientific and culinary. McPhee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. Noted for his accessible and perceptive studies of the physical world, he weaves together strands of personal, natural, and national history in this absorbing study that traces... Read more

High Crimes - Abridged

By: Michael Kodas

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world--where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature. In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the glorious adventures in mountains around the world, none details how the recent... Read more

High Crimes - Abridged

By: Michael Kodas

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

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Mündlich besser - fit in 30 Minuten

By: Björn Gemmer & Dirk Konnertz

Narrated by: Charles Rettinghaus

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Die mündliche Mitarbeit wir von vielen Schülerinnen und Schülern unterschätzt. Sie hat aber oft großen Anteil an der Zeugnisnote. Es ist gar nicht schwer, die mündlichen Leistungen im Unterricht zu verbessern. Dieses Hörbuch enthält zahlreiche Hilfen zur Überwindung von Meldeängsten und gibt viele erprobte Tipps für eine erfolgreiche Beteiligung... Read more

Baseball

By: George Vecsey

Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the New York Times. In Baseball, he recounts the history of America's national pastime. Baseball has been around in various forms for thousands of years, but within the last 200 years it has become an American institution. Growing from a sport played in open... Read more

Never Say Diet

By: Chantel Hobbs

Narrated by: Chantel Hobbs

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

End the diet drama once and for all!  What’s the secret that helped Chantel Hobbs lose 200 pounds?  If you want to lose weight for good, learn a secret from Chantel Hobbs. “I was tired of hearing ‘you have such a pretty face,’ which we all know is code for ‘but the rest of you needs help.’”  Chantel Hobbs lost two hundred pounds without the help... Read more

The Inner Game of Tennis

By: W. Timothy Gallwey

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The timeless guide to achieving the state of “relaxed concentration” that’s not only the key to peak performance in tennis but the secret to success in life itself—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold!

“Groundbreaking . . . the best guide to getting out of your own way . . . Its profound advice applies... Read more

The 12 Second Sequence - Abridged

By: Jorge Cruise

Narrated by: Jorge Cruise

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 12-Second Sequence™ is fitness superstar Jorge Cruise’s newest revolutionary method of resistance training that burns fat, shrinks your waistline, and gets you into the best shape of your life–and all it takes is two twenty-minute workouts each week. Based on the latest groundbreaking research in exercise physiology, the 12-Second Sequence™... Read more

Berührung - Max Schmeling erzählt aus seinem Leben - Abridged

By: Max Schmeling

Narrated by: Angelika Waller & Max Schmeling

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In diesem akustischen Portrait spricht Max Schmeling über die verschiedenen Abschnitte seines Lebens: er berührt Themen wie seine Kindheit im Brandenburgischen, seine Freundschaft zum amerikanischen Boxprofi Joe Louis und die Liebe zu seiner Frau Anny Ondra. Von Angelika Waller gelesene Gedichte verschiedener Autoren wie Goethe oder... Read more

Chasing the Dream - Abridged

By: Joe Torre

Narrated by: Joe Torre

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Maybe the good Lord was just waiting for me to put on the pinstripes."

When Joe Torre was fired as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1995, he thought his career in baseball was over. After more than three decades and 4,200 games as a player and manager, one thing had always eluded him--winning a World Series.  

He had all but given up his... Read more

Around the World on Two Wheels

By: Peter Zheutlin

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle. Annie Kopchovsky changed all of that.



Annie was a Jewish immigrant and working mother of three living in a Boston tenement with her husband, a peddler. This was as close to the American dream as she... Read more

Going Low

By: Patrick J. Cohn

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Going Low teaches tour-proven strategies so you can break through your individual scoring barrier--whether it's 100, 90, 80, or 70--for the first time and continue to shoot low golf scores. Drawing heavily from the experience of top professionals and his own work, author Patrick Cohn provides specific instructions that will guide you, lesson by... Read more

Golf My Own Damn Way

By: John Daly & Glen Waggoner

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Golf My Own Damn Way is a different golf instructional book, as only John Daly can write. Funny, irreverent, and crude, this book is perfect for the everyday golfer looking to improve his or her game or nongolfers looking for a laugh. With short, quirky chapters that cover everything from improving your swing to John's favorite courses, this... Read more

Hate Mail from Cheerleaders

By: Rick Reilly

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Each week, when Sports Illustrated's 21 million readers open up their magazine, many turn right to the last page because that's where to find SI's most popular feature: the Life of Reilly column written by bestselling author Rick Reilly. A twenty-one-year veteran of the magazine and ten-time Sportswriter of the Year, Reilly took over SI's back... Read more

Jim Thorpe, Original All-American

By: Joseph Bruchac

Narrated by: Joseph Bruchac

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League b aseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track and field. He’ll forever be remembered by the sports community and by his Native American community, who consider him a hero on par with Crazy Horse.

Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in... Read more

Shattered Air

By: Bob Madgic

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

On the evening of July 27, 1985, five hikers made a fateful choice to climb Yosemite's fabled Half Dome, even as the sky darkened and thunder rolled. By night's end, two would be dead from a lightning strike, three gravely wounded, and desperate EMTs would be overseeing a harrowing midnight helicopter rescue.Shattered Airis a haunting account of... Read more

The Daring Book for Girls - Abridged

By: Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz

Narrated by: Ilyana Kadushin

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For every girl with an independent spirit and a nose for trouble, here is the no-boys-allowed guide to everything from school yard games to great women in history!The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes!Audio includes:Fourteen Games of Tag • Queens of the Ancient... Read more

Total Access - Abridged

By: Rich Eisen

Narrated by: Rich Eisen

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Football fans are tired of lame memoirs or technical fantasy football books. Rich Eisen's Total Access gives them what they want—a chance to share in his world of a never-ending football season.

It's about eating, living, and breathing the most popular sport in the history of America. The passion. The pageantry. The pigskin. Thanks to his role as... Read more

Hitting Secrets of the Pros

By: Wayne Stewart

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Hitting Secrets of the Pros is the first book of its kind to approach the art of hitting from an anecdotal perspective, providing keen insight and instruction through exclusive interviews and historical research. Nomar Garciaparra, Ken Griffey Jr., Mark McGwire, Stan Musial, and Cal Ripken are only a few of the big-league batters who share their... Read more

Healthy Eating Freeway Guide

By: Penny Steward

Narrated by: Penny Steward

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you wish you had more energy? Are you carrying a few extra pounds? Are you curious about how food really affects you? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this Freeway Guide is for you! You are what you eat after all, and in today’s busy world too many people are making the wrong food choices leading to obesity, lack of energy... Read more