Sports & Recreation audiobooks

The Great Chase

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The Dodgers-Giants rivalry is the longest-standing rivalry in baseball history—a feud that began in the late nineteenth century when both clubs were based in New York City. Then, on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson's "shot heard around the world" ended their pennant race—one of the most dramatic ever. Interviews, contemporary newspaper articles,... Read more

Fishing on the Edge - Abridged

By: Mike Iaconelli, Brian Kamenetzky & Andrew Kamen...

Narrated by: Mike Iaconelli

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With his colorful tattoos and booming hip-hop sound track, Mike Iaconelli has turned the world of big-money competitive bass fishing upside down. In Fishing on the Edge, Iaconelli tells his own story–and it’s a whopper: a Philly-born, Jersey-bred Yankee who’s been stealing the spotlight from bass fishing’s traditionally all-Southern anglers,... Read more

Bat Boy

By: Matthew McGough

Narrated by: Jason Harris

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, complete with a poster of his hero, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly, hanging on his bedroom wall. Despite having no connections... Read more

Coach

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Michael Lewis

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child’s mind;
it’s as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever.”

There was a turning point in Michael Lewis’s life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line... Read more

Bat Boy - Abridged

By: Matthew McGough

Narrated by: Matthew McGough

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, complete with a poster of his hero, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly, hanging on his bedroom wall. Despite having no connections... 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

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

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

Three 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

Luckiest 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

Emperors 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

Fifth 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

French 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

The 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

Hell 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

Rammer 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

Namath: 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