Sports & Recreation audiobooks

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

Wait Til Next Year

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.

Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were... Read more

How The Government Got in Your Backyard

By: Jeff Gillman

Narrated by: Wes Bleed

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

How the Government Got in Your Backyard distills the science, the politics, and the unbiased, nonpartisan truth behind hot-button environmental issues from pesticides to global warming. By clearly representing what the left says, what the right says, what the science is, and what the facts are, Gillman and Heberlig don't set out to provide the... Read more

Zim

By: Don Zimmer

Narrated by: Dennis McKee

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Don Zimmer had his first taste of baseball glory in 1948 as a member of a national champion American Legion team. He was drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers, only to have his career—and life—threatened when he was beaned in a minor league game in 1953.After a miraculous recovery, he went on to play for Brooklyn’s only world championship team in... Read more

I Beat the Odds

By: Michael Oher

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The football star made famous in the hit film The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth.

Michael Oher is the young man at the center of the true story depicted in The Blind Side movie (and book) that swept up awards and accolades. Though the odds were heavily stacked against him, Michael had a burning... Read more

Endgame

By: Frank Brady

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From Frank Brady, who wrote one of the bestselling books on Bobby Fischer of all time and who was himself a friend of Fischer’s, comes an impressively researched biography that for the first time completely captures the remarkable arc of Bobby Fischer’s life. When Bobby Fischer passed away in January 2008, he left behind a confounding legacy.... Read more

A Race Too Far

By: Chris Eakin

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race - an incredible test of endurance never before attempted - a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop, going into port for repairs or supplies would mean disqualification.

This remarkable challenge inspired the daring to enter - with or without sailing... Read more

Scorecasting

By: Tobias Moskowitz & L. Jon Wertheim

Narrated by: Zach McLarty

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.

Drawing from Moskowitz's... Read more

Wild: Stories of Survival From The World's Most Dangerous Places

By: Jack London, Evelyn Waugh, Norman Maclean, Redm...

Narrated by: Albert Coia, Richard Rohan & Nick Sampson

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood.Selections from these authors' most gripping works are... Read more

Yoga Stretch For Fitness

By: Beth Shaw

Narrated by: Beth Shaw

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dynamic one-hour program, Yoga Stretch For Fitness, yoga expert Beth Shaw guides the listener through a variety of basic stretching, toning and strengthening movements. She encourages participants of any age, size or body type to follow this program while traveling or in the comfort of home.

Music tracks, which accompany Beth’s vocal... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Shaping the New You - 40 Stories on Getting Started, How Exercise Can Be Fun, To Err is Human, and Regaining Control

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Buck Schirner

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

40 Stories on Getting Started, How Exercise Can Be Fun, To Err is Human, and Regaining ControlThrough the Doors of Slimmons by Richard Simmons Getting Started Exercise Can Be Fun To Err is Human Regaining Control Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Shaping the New You - 31 Stories about the Gym, Liking Yourself, and Having a Partner

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Buck Schirner

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

31 Stories about the Gym, Liking Yourself, and Having a PartnerThrough the Doors of Slimmons by Richard Simmons The Gym Liking Myself Having a Partner Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Shaping the New You - 32 Stories about Telling Yourself the Truth, Foods That Make a Difference, and Going Off the Beaten Path

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Buck Schirner

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories about Telling Yourself the Truth, Foods That Make a Difference, and Going Off the Beaten PathThrough the Doors of Slimmons by Richard Simmons Telling Myself the Truth Foods that Made a Difference Off the Beaten Off Read more

Deep Blue: Stories of Shipwreck, Sunken Treasure and Survival

By: Patrick O'Brian, Farley Mowat, Robert Louis Ste...

Narrated by: Terence Aselford, Richard Rohan, Nick Sampson &...

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

For those who dare, things often go wrong under the sea. Such tragedies, spurred by the booming interest in the Titanic and the Andrea Doria, have been the focus of tremendous literature form the world's finest authors. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving, nautical survival and... Read more

Explore: Stories of Survival From Off The Map

By: Lawrence Millman, Gene Savoy, Tim Cahill, Redmo...

Narrated by: Grover Gardner, Anne Flosnik, Nick Sampson, Gar...

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Explore offers first-hand accounts from the world’s boldest explorers, men and women encountering storms, starvation, cannibals, predators and disease in their pursuit of adventure.Their stories are immediate, passionate and dramatic accounts of contact with the unknown, discovered in the Himalaya, the ruins of Peru, the jungles of New Guinea... Read more

Storm: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea

By: Sebastian Junger, Michael Groom, Gordon Chaplin...

Narrated by: Terence Aselford, Rick Foucheux, Nick Sampson &...

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Most people associate storms and other big weather with death—with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, and time and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where they’re likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong... Read more

Survive: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals

By: Steven Callahan, Mark Twain, Virginia Reed Murp...

Narrated by: Colleen Delany, Nick Sampson, Erik Synnestvedt ...

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories in Survive are full of suffering: From the savagery of the Donner Party snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter of 1846, to the extreme hunger and brutal cold endured by Ernest Shackleton’s support team in Antarctica in 1915.Such suffering may be hard to listen to, but it engages us, offering glimpses of something... Read more

Buy A Game

By: Dre Baldwin

Narrated by: Dre Baldwin

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

I have had the idea of writing a book for a while now, and the beauty of the Internet is that anyone can put their work out there - websites, workout videos, books - freely without having to navigate through the traditional gatekeepers of self-expression. The most important part of putting this out is your response; I know I can get a lot better... Read more

Head On - Ian Botham: The Autobiography

By: Ian Botham

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Ian Botham, voted the cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, was a genuine all-rounder who, when on form, was simply unstoppable. In his miraculous early career, he broke all the records: the fastest ever all-rounder to achieve the magical test doubles of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets, 2,000 runs and 200 wickets, and 3,000 runs and 300 wickets.... Read more

The 4-Hour Body - Abridged

By: Timothy Ferriss

Narrated by: Zach McLarty

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

ENHANCED CD 3 * INCLUDES WORKOUT PROGRAMS TO GET YOU STARTED!

Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which section of the audiobook will you listen to?

Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing? Yes, and much more.

Join author Tim Ferriss as he... Read more

Two Years before the Mast

By: Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." Influencing such authors as Conrad and Melville, it has become a maritime classic that has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea.Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brigPilgrimfor a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to... Read more