Sports & Recreation audiobooks

The Empire Strikes Out

By: Robert Elias

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's our game…America's game: it has the snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere—belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws, [and] is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."—Walt Whitman on baseballIs the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill... Read more

Run to Overcome

By: Meb Keflezighi

Narrated by: Jon Gauger

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Meb Keflezighi (Kef-lez-ghee) is all about hope and second chances—starting with his very survival. The child of a small African country ravaged by a brutal war, Meb arrived in America with nothing but the clothes on his back, speaking no English and never having raced a mile. So how did he end up an A student, one of the most celebrated and... Read more

Zero Regrets

By: Apolo Ohno

Narrated by: Apolo Ohno

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Gold medal-winning Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno shares the inspiring personal story behind his enduring success as an elite athlete and reveals the universal life lessons he has learned through his training and competition.

“Zero regrets. It’s a philosophy not just about sport but about life. School, business, academics, love—anything and... Read more

127 Hours Movie Tie- In - Abridged

By: Aron Ralston

Narrated by: Aron Ralston

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The international bestseller Between a Rock and a Hard Place is now a major motion picture starring James Franco.

Hiking into the remote Utah canyonlands, Aron Ralston felt perfectly at home in the beauty of the natural world. Then, at 2:41 P.M., eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, an eight-hundred-pound boulder tumbled... Read more

Thanks, Johnners

By: Jonathan Agnew

Narrated by: Jonathan Agnew

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

READ BY JONATHAN AGNEW AND FOREWORD READ BY THE MAGNIFICIENT STEPHEN FRY WITH SURPRISE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JONATHAN’S TEST MATCH SPECIAL COLLEAGUES!! Perfect for cricket fans everywhere, Thanks Johnners is a warm and witty tribute to Brian Johnston and his time at the helm of Test Match Special. READ BY JONATHAN AGNEW,... Read more

Irish Thunder

By: Bob Halloran

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"Irish" Micky Ward grew up in the 1970s and '80s as a tough kid from Lowell, Massachusetts—a town where young men became boxers as a means of survival. Ward participated in street fights from an early age and was forever known by his opponents and spectators as the underdog. But with his incredible ability to suddenly drop an opponent late in a... Read more

The Long Run

By: Matthew Long & Charles Butler

Narrated by: Matthew Del Negro

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

On the morning of December 22, 2005, New York City firefighter Matt Long was cycling to work when he was struck by and sucked under a 20-ton bus making an illegal turn. The injuries he sustained pushed him within inches of death. Miraculously, after five months in the hospital and more than 40 operations, Matt was able to start his recovery. In... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners - 39 Stories about Pushing Through, Where It Takes You, and Triathlons

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...

Narrated by: Christina Traister & Dan John Miller

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

39 Stories about Pushing Through, Where It Takes You, and TriathlonsA Step at a Time Fortitude Interesting Places Triathlons Read more

The Last Boy

By: Jane Leavy

Narrated by: Jane Leavy & John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but public revelations of alcoholism, infidelity, and family strife... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners - 31 Stories on Starting Out, Running Therapy, and Camaraderie

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...

Narrated by: Christina Traister & Dan John Miller

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

31 Stories on Starting Out, Running Therapy, and CamaraderieStarting Out Running Therapy Camaraderie Read more

Role of a Lifetime

By: James Brown

Narrated by: James Brown

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in a world that all too often operates under the overriding template of self-promotion, embracing a "hooray for me" attitude, and which measures success in increasingly small timeframes dotted with markers of temporal value.

Millions of viewers know James Brown as a sports commentator and former athlete. With ROLE OF A LIFETIME, James... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners - 31 Stories of Adventure, Comebacks, and Family Ties

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...

Narrated by: Christina Traister & Dan John Miller

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

31 Stories of Adventure, Comebacks, and Family TiesComebacks Everyday Adventures Family Ties Read more

Play Their Hearts Out

By: George Dohrmann

Narrated by: Emily Rose Speer

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight years of unfettered access and a keen sense of a story's deepest truths allow Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the machine that produces America's basketball stars. Drawing on eight years of reporting and telling the very specific tale of one talented young recruit, his coach, and his teammates,... Read more

Johnners' Trivia Test Match

By: Brian Johnston

Narrated by: Brian Johnston, Tim Rice, Various & Willie Rushton

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Johnston, aka ‘Johnners’, the BBC’s long-time cricket commentator, is the umpire in this test of wit and general knowledge, as two teams try to score the highest number of runs under his watchful eye. In these four episodes, team captains Tim Rice and Willie Rushton are joined by Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer,... Read more

Baseball - Abridged

By: Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The companion to Ken Burns’s magnificent PBS television series—updated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, two-part Tenth Inning directed with Lynn Novick.
 
The authors of the acclaimed and bestselling The Civil War, Jazz, and The War turn to another uniquely American phenomenon: baseball. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns’s moving... Read more

The Wave

By: Susan Casey

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal,  ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.

For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dis­missed these stories—waves that high would seem to violate the laws of... Read more

Shattered

By: Frank Pastore & Ellen Vaughn

Narrated by: Frank Pastore

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Frank Pastore stepped onto the mound in Dodger Stadium to throw another fastball—something he’d done thousands of times since childhood. But this time was different. The batter connected and the ball came rocketing back to the mound, shattering not only Frank’s pitching elbow—but also his dream of getting “rich and... Read more

God and Football

By: Chad Gibbs

Narrated by: Chad Gibbs

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of 8, Chad Gibbs attended his first Southeastern Conference football game. Since then he has been in a constant battle to not let his love of all things pigskin consume him. As a Christian, Gibbs knows he cannot serve two masters, but at times his faith is overwhelmed by his fanaticism. He is not alone.In 2008 over six million... Read more

Chippy

By: Adrian Mills

Narrated by: Adrian Mills

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Every now and again, a special player comes along who has the skill and imagination to single-handedly change a game, make the spectators gasp and set everyone's pulses racing. Liam Brady was such a player. At Arsenal, "Chippy" will forever be a true Highbury legend, who deservedly is always one of the first names onto an "all time greatest"... Read more

Baseball

By: Benjamin G. Rader

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A succinct history of baseball, newly revised and updated. In this third edition of his lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope, covering record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and... Read more

The Mentor Leader

By: Tony Dungy

Narrated by: Tony Dungy

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Your only job is to help your players be better.” That single idea had a huge impact on Tony Dungy when he heard it from one of his earliest mentors, and it led him to develop the successful leadership style so admired by players and coaches throughout the NFL. Now, a storied career and a Super Bowl victory later, Tony Dungy is sharing his... Read more

Cardboard Gods

By: Josh Wilker

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his... Read more

In a Heartbeat

By: Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy & Sally Jenkins

Narrated by: Leigh Anne Tuohy, Sean Tuohy, Sally Jenkins, Ka...

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story

First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie—the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never... Read more

Win Forever - Abridged

By: Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth & Kristoffer A. Garin

Narrated by: Pete Carroll

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"I know that I'll be evaluated in Seattle with wins and losses, as that is the nature of my profession for the last thirty-five years. But our record will not be what motivates me. Years ago I was asked, 'Pete, which is better: winning or competing?' My response was instantaneous: 'Competing. . . because it lasts longer.'"Pete Carroll is one of... Read more