Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Sandy Koufax

By: Jane Leavy

Narrated by: Charley Steiner

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal “Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It’s a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero’s self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living... Read more

Sandy Koufax - Abridged

By: Jane Leavy

Narrated by: Robert Pinsky & Jane Leavy

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed…. This is an absorbing book, beautifully written.” —Wall Street Journal “Leavy has hit it out of the park…A lot more than a biography. It’s a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero’s self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living... Read more

As They See 'Em

By: Bruce Weber

Narrated by: Charley Steiner

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong. As They See 'Em is an insider's look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure... Read more

The All-Pro Diet

By: Tony Gonzalez & Mitzi Dulan

Narrated by: Chris Gonzalez

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Gain strength, stamina, and energy like a pro!  For years, professional football player Tony Gonzalez fueled his game-day performances and workouts with a host of popular (and unhealthy) foods like burgers with bacon and cheese, deep-fried chicken wings, shrimp drenched in butter, and steak at least three times a week. When you’re constantly... Read more

Game Plan for Life - Abridged

By: Joe Gibbs

Narrated by: Todd Busteed

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Three-time Super Bowl and NASCAR champion Joe Gibbs’s Game Plan for Life is an “average Joe’s” guide to what the Bible has to say about the 11 most-important topics for men. Topics such as finances, relationships, living a life of purpose, finding the right vocation, physical, emotional, and spiritual health, and overcoming sin and addictions.... Read more

A Flame of Pure Fire

By: Roger Kahn

Narrated by: Kevin Yon

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Dempsey was perfectly suited to the time in which he fought, the time when the United States first felt the throb of its own overwhelming power. For eight years and two months after World War I, Dempsey, with his fierce good looks and matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion of the world. A Flame of Pure Fire is the... Read more

First Things First

By: Brenda Warner & Kurt Warner

Narrated by: Todd Busteed, Rebecca Gallagher & Abigail Seward

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Kurt Warner is the two-time NFL MVP–winning quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. Brenda Warner is an ex-Marine turned stay-at-home Mom who collects coats for low-income kids and rocks babies to sleep at a center for chronically ill infants. Together they’re the parents of seven children, going into their thirteenth year of marriage. Their... Read more

Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever

By: Leroy “Satchel” Paige

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Leroy "Satchel" Paige was forty-two years old when he became the first African American pitcher in the American League in 1948. Although he was the oldest rookie around, he had already become a legend. For twenty-two years, beginning in 1926, Paige dazzled fans with his performance in the Negro Major Leagues. He outlasted everyone by playing... Read more

Mysteries of Food Cravings

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser talks to author Dr. David Kessler about overeating and what is behind people's cravings, the subject of his new book, The End of Overeating. Read more

Satchel

By: Larry Tye

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige

“Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”—The Boston Globe

Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in... Read more

Crazy for the Storm

By: Norman Ollestad

Narrated by: Norman Ollestad

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“Breathtaking....Crazy for the Storm will keep you up late into the night.”
—Washington Post Book World Norman Olstead’s New York Times bestselling memoir Crazy for the Storm is the story of the harrowing plane crash the author miraculously survived at age eleven, framed by the moving tale of his complicated relationship with his charismatic,... Read more

Lance

By: John Wilcockson

Narrated by: Connor Trinneer

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Once a superstar in the world of cycling and one of its most interesting personalities, Lance Armstrong is known for pushing his body to the extreme, intimidating his rivals, and breaking the rules. Armstrong's many achievements were consistently dogged by allegations of doping and secrecy, allegations to which the cyclist ultimately... Read more

Red and Me

By: Bill Russell

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller""On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word 'love,' but deny it though you will, Mr. Russell, that's what sits at the heart of this beautiful book."" — Bill Bradley, New York Times Book ReviewIn Red and Me, Boston Celtics... Read more

Diet Myths that Keep Us Fat - Abridged

By: Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.

Narrated by: Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Get the real skinny on fat.

When it comes to losing weight, the false beliefs most of us cling to could fill a book–this one! As a medical doctor, medical journalist, and veteran of the diet wars, Nancy L. Snyderman knows better than almost anyone what really works and what sabotages your best efforts to shed pounds and keep them off. Do you... Read more

A-Rod - Abridged

By: Selena Roberts

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Diligent, detailed, and overpowering. This is not a book of conjecture: It’s one of bootstrap journalism.” —New York magazine The New York Times calls sports journalist Selena Roberts’s blistering biography, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, “Important…devastating…merciless.” A columnist for Sports Illustrated, Roberts pulls no punches... Read more

Golf’s Greatest Championship

By: Julian I. Graubart

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

The 1960 US Open Golf Championship played at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, Colorado, remains perhaps the most dramatic, competitive, and passionate of all US Open championships. In 1960, the young lions of the game were eager to reach the top-tier occupied by venerable players such as Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. In this championship game,... Read more

The End of Overeating

By: David A. Kessler MD

Narrated by: Blair Hardman

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food -- when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it's harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating -- even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we continue to reach for food?

Dr. David Kessler,... Read more

Yogi Berra

By: Allen Barra

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 20 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player in baseball history, with fourteen pennants, ten World Series, and three MVPs.



In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi's... Read more

The Greatest: Muhammad Ali

By: Walter Dean Myers

Narrated by: J.D. Jackson

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." This was one of the most famous catch-phrases of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Rising from poverty-stricken Louisville in the 1950s he became one of the world's greatest athletes. Beginning life as Cassius Clay, Ali would struggle against opponents both in and out of the ring. Segregation and racism... Read more

Outcasts United

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more

Outcasts United - Abridged

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town

Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and... Read more

Age Is Just a Number

By: Dara Torres & Elizabeth Weil

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.

Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired from competitive... Read more

The Gold Standard

By: Mike Krzyzewski

Narrated by: Mike Krzyzewski & Jamie K. Spatola

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Half a book on basketball, half a book on management techniques, The Gold Standard captures Coach K's personal style and approach to getting different (and sometimes difficult) people to work hard and succeed in reaching a common goal.

"In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said,... Read more

Forever Blue

By: Michael D'Antonio

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Resented by some in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, O’Malley is one of the most controversial owners in the history of American sports. He remade major league baseball and altered the course of history in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles when he moved the Dodgers to California. But while many New York critics attacked him, O’Malley looked to... Read more