Sports & Recreation audiobooks
Wilt, 1962 - Abridged
By: Gary M. Pomerantz
Narrated by: Roscoe Orman
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.
As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game... Read more
Cinderella Man - Abridged
By: Jeremy Schaap
Narrated by: Jeremy Schaap
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: Yes
James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more
View audiobookCinderella Man
By: Jeremy Schaap
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
James J. Braddock, dubbed “Cinderella Man” by Damon Runyon, was a once promising light heavyweight for whom a string of losses in the ring and a broken right hand happened to coincide with the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his manager, Joe Gould, still believed in him, finding fights... Read more
View audiobookThree Nights in August
By: Buzz Bissinger
Narrated by: Jeffrey Nordling
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights follows 2004 National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa through a three-game series with the arch-rival Chicago Cubs. Bissinger chronicles the process by which the manager leads his players to victory and distills the essence of the game from locker room and front... Read more
View audiobookLuckiest Man - Abridged
By: Jonathan Eig
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.
Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear,... Read more
Wilt, 1962
By: Gary M. Pomerantz
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.
As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game... Read more
Body for Life for Women - Abridged
By: Dr. Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.
Narrated by: Dr. Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The bestselling Body-for-Life program is now tailored just for women—to help them achieve dramatic weight loss and body-changing fitness in just 12 weeks!
The #1 New York Times bestseller Body-for-LIFE helped hundreds of thousands of people the world over to build stronger bodies and enjoy a higher quality of life. Now Dr. Pamela Peeke,... Read more
Let Me Tell You a Story - Abridged
By: John Feinstein
Narrated by: Arnie Mazer
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: Yes
"Did I ever tell you about Wilt Chamberlain?" "Did I ever tell you about Bob Cousy?" "Did I ever tell you about Joe DiMaggio?" Whenever Arnold "Red" Auerbach starts a sentence with those six words -- "Did I ever tell you about . . ." -- anyone within earshot should prepare to hear a marvelous story.
As a living legend among sports fans, Red... Read more
Emperors and Idiots
By: Mike Vaccaro
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. For a hundred years, no two teams have locked horns as fiercely or as frequently – and no two seasons frame the colossal battle more perfectly than 2003 and 2004. Now, with incredible energy and access, leading sports columnist Mike Vaccaro chronicles the history of the greatest rivalry in sports, and... Read more
View audiobookEmperors and Idiots - Abridged
By: Mike Vaccaro
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: Yes
The New York Yankees. The Boston Red Sox. For a hundred years, no two teams have locked horns as fiercely or as frequently – and no two seasons frame the colossal battle more perfectly than 2003 and 2004. Now, with incredible energy and access, leading sports columnist Mike Vaccaro chronicles the history of the greatest rivalry in sports, and... Read more
View audiobookFifth Quarter
By: Jennifer Allen
Narrated by: Susie Breck
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
George Allen was a top-ranked NFL coach throughout the 1960s and 1970s, coaching in turn the Chicago Bears, the Los Angeles Rams, and the Washington Redskins. Raised in a home dominated by her three football obsessed older brothers and her father's relentless schedule, the author came of age in a cauldron of testosterone and a win-at-all-costs... Read more
View audiobookFrench Women Don't Get Fat - Abridged
By: Mireille Guiliano
Narrated by: Mireille Guiliano
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.
French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox”–how... Read more
Faithful
By: Stewart O'Nan & Stephen King
Narrated by: Ron McLarty & Adam Grupper
Length: 16 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“Faithful isn't just about the Red Sox. It's also about family, friendship, and what it truly means to be a baseball fan and to be—well, faithful, come hell or high water” (The Boston Globe).
“Of all the books that will examine the Boston Red Sox's stunning come-from-behind 2004 ALCS win over the Yankees and subsequent World Series victory,... Read more
The Golfer's Mind - Abridged
By: Bob Rotella
Narrated by: Bob Rotella
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For the last decade, golfers of all abilities have been drawn to the writings and teachings of Bob “Doc” Rotella. His books Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect, Golf Is a Game of Confidence, The Golf of Your Dreams, and Putting Out of Your Mind have all become classics for golfers everywhere. Weekend golfers and pros like Brad Faxon, Darren Clarke,... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Season
By: Phil Jackson
Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
For the countless basketball fans who were spellbound by the Los Angeles Lakers’ 2003–2004 high-wire act, this book is a rare and phenomenal treat. In The Last Season, Lakers coach Phil Jackson draws on his trademark honesty and insight to tell the whole story of the season that proved to be the final ride of a truly great dynasty. From the... Read more
View audiobookHell or High Water
By: Peter Heller
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The Tsangpo Gorge in southeastern Tibet has lured explorers and adventurers since its discovery. Sacred to the Buddhists, the inspiration for Shangri La, the Gorge is as steeped in legend and mystery as any spot on earth. As a river-running challenge, the remote Tsangpo is relentlessly unforgiving, more difficult than any stretch of river ever... Read more
View audiobookRammer Jammer Yellow Hammer - Abridged
By: Warren St. John
Narrated by: Warren St. John
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic
In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the... Read more
The Lost Explorer - Abridged
By: Conrad Anker & David Roberts
Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn & Michael McGlone
Length: 4 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest, leaving open the tantalizing question of whether they had reached the summit of Everest twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered Mallory's body on Everest and helped solve one... Read more
View audiobookNamath: A Biography
By: Mark Kriegel
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 21 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the few sports heroes to transcend the game he played. Novelist and former sports-columnist Mark Kriegel’s bestselling biography of the iconic quarterback details his journey from steel-town pool halls to the upper reaches of American celebrity—and beyond. The first of his... Read more
View audiobookFit to Lead - Abridged
By: Christopher P. Neck, Tedd L. Mitchell, Charles ...
Narrated by: Richard Rohan
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Improve your body, improve your career: An executive fitness plan by experts from the Cooper Wellness Clinic
• Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza, runs four miles a day and spend 30 minutes on the Nautilus machine
• Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare, uses time between flights to jog around airports
• Julian C. Day,... Read more
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
By: Warren St. John
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic
In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the... Read more
Funny Cide - Abridged
By: Sally Jenkins & Funny Cide Ventures, LLC
Narrated by: Jamey Sheridan
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
They had no business being there. They were up against million-dollar horses owned by patricians, oilmen, Arab sheiks, and Hollywood producers. They were ten regular guys, and all they wanted was to win a race. Instead, they won the hearts of America.
In 2003, a three-year-old with the unlikely name of Funny Cide became "the people's horse," the... Read more
Ted Williams - Abridged
By: Leigh Montville
Narrated by: Philip Bosco
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
He was The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend – and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? What motivated him to interrupt his Hall of Fame career twice to serve his country as a... Read more
View audiobookThe Sexy Years - Abridged
By: Suzanne Somers
Narrated by: Suzanne Somers
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Getting older can be brutal—women gain weight, lose their sex drive, experience hot flashes, suffer memory loss, become short-tempered, find it difficult to sleep, and on and on. It’s not so easy for men, either—they start to lose energy and stamina as they age, too (and they have to live with women going through menopause). After years of... Read more
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