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Swell
- A Waterbiography
- By: Jenny Landreth
- Narrated by: Jenny Landreth
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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These days, swimming may seem like the most egalitarian of pastimes, open to anyone with a swimsuit - but this wasn't always the case. In the 19th century, swimming was exclusively the domain of men, and access to pools was a luxury limited by class. Women were (barely) allowed to swim in the sea, as long as no men were around, but even into the 20th century they could be arrested and fined if they dared dive into a lake. It wasn't until the 1930s that women were finally granted equal access.
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Swell
- By LozandChar on 17-09-25
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Swell
- A Waterbiography
- Narrated by: Jenny Landreth
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 31-08-17
- Language: English
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Baseball
- The Turbulent Midcentury Years
- By: Steven P. Gietschier
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Baseball explores the history of organized baseball during the mid-twentieth century, examining the sport on and off the field and contextualizing its development as both sport and business. Steven P. Gietschier begins with the Great Depression, looking at how those years of economic turmoil shaped the sport and how baseball responded. Gietschier covers a then-burgeoning group of owners, players, and key figures whose stories figure prominently in baseball's past and some of whom are still prominent in its collective consciousness.
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Baseball
- The Turbulent Midcentury Years
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 24 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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Striking Distance
- Bruce Lee & the Dawn of Martial Arts in America
- By: Charles Russo
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In the Chinese calendar, 1964 was the Year of the Green Dragon. It would be a challenging and eventful year for Bruce Lee. He would broadcast his dissenting view before the first great international martial arts gathering and then defend it by facing down Chinatown's young ace kung fu practitioner in a legendary behind-closed-doors, high-noon-style showdown. The Year of the Green Dragon saw the dawn of martial arts in America and the rise of an icon.
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Soooo Good !!!
- By Phillip on 28-10-23
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Striking Distance
- Bruce Lee & the Dawn of Martial Arts in America
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-07-16
- Language: English
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The Betrayal
- The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
- By: Charles Fountain
- Narrated by: Bob Reed
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players - including Shoeless Joe Jackson - agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein. Heavily favored, Chicago lost the Series five games to three. Although rumors of a fix flew while the series was being played, they were largely disregarded by players and the public at large.
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The Betrayal
- The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
- Narrated by: Bob Reed
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 15-02-16
- Language: English
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Coach Wooden and Me
- Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court
- By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Narrated by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Length: 6 hrs
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Former NBA star and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history. When future NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was still an eighteen-year-old high school...
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Fantastic bio analytica!
- By Ordinary Ed on 06-03-20
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Coach Wooden and Me
- Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court
- Narrated by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 16-05-17
- Language: English
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The Heritage
- Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
- By: Howard Bryant
- Narrated by: Ronnie Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism Named a best book of 2018 by Library Journal It used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state...
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The Heritage
- Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
- Narrated by: Ronnie Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-05-18
- Language: English
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How Football Began
- A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born
- By: Tony Collins
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world. The book explores how the world’s football codes...
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How Football Began
- A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-05-26
- Language: English
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From Hang Time to Prime Time
- Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA
- By: Pete Croatto
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Perfect for fans of Moneyball and The Book of Basketball, this vivid, thoroughly entertaining, and well-researched book explores the NBA’s surge in popularity in the 1970s and 1980s and its transformation into a global cultural institution. Far beyond simply being a sports league, the NBA has...
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From Hang Time to Prime Time
- Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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Drama in the Bahamas
- Muhammad Ali's Last Fight
- By: Dave Hannigan
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan tells the occasionally poignant, often troubling, yet always entertaining story behind Ali's last bout. Through interviews with many of those involved, he discovers exactly how and why, a few weeks short of his 40th birthday, a seriously diminished Ali stepped through the ropes one more time to get beaten up by Trevor Berbick.
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Sad book
- By Jordan Powell on 20-01-19
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Drama in the Bahamas
- Muhammad Ali's Last Fight
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-08-16
- Language: English
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The National Forgotten League
- Entertaining Stories and Observations from pro Football's First Fifty Years
- By: Dan Daly
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The first fifty years of America's most popular spectator sport have been strangely neglected by historians claiming to tell the "complete story" of pro football. Well, here are the early stories that "complete story" has left out. What about the awful secret carried around by Sid Luckman, the Bears' Hall of Fame quarterback whose father was a mobster and a murderer? Or Steve Hamas, who briefly played in the NFL then turned to boxing and beat Max Schmeling, conqueror of Joe Louis?
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The National Forgotten League
- Entertaining Stories and Observations from pro Football's First Fifty Years
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 15-07-14
- Language: English
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Parcells
- A Football Life
- By: Bill Parcells, Nunyo Demasio
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 26 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Bill Parcells may be the most iconic football coach of our time. During his decades-long tenure as an NFL coach, he turned failing franchises into contenders. He led the ailing New York Giants to two Super Bowl victories, turned the New England Patriots into an NFL powerhouse, reinvigorated the...
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A true NFL Legend
- By Mr I Buchanan on 24-03-16
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Parcells
- A Football Life
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 26 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 28-10-14
- Language: English
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Roller Derby
- The History of an American Sport
- By: Michella M. Marino
- Narrated by: P. J. Morgan
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Since 1935, roller derby has thrilled fans and skaters with its constant action, hard hits, and edgy attitude. However, though its participants’ athleticism is undeniable, roller derby has never been accepted as a “real” sport. Michella M. Marino, herself a former skater, tackles the history of a sport that has long been a cultural mainstay for one reason both utterly simple and infinitely complex: Roller derby has always been coed.
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Roller Derby
- The History of an American Sport
- Narrated by: P. J. Morgan
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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Out of the Clouds
- The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings
- By: Linda Carroll, David Rosner
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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In the bestselling tradition ofthe The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest...
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Out of the Clouds
- The Unlikely Horseman and the Unwanted Colt Who Conquered the Sport of Kings
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 29-05-18
- Language: English
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The Big Time
- How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America
- By: Michael MacCambridge
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of American culture. Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE BIG TIME, no decade in American sports history...
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Interesting but a bit long
- By Mr Paul Michael Hopkins on 09-02-24
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The Big Time
- How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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This is Your Brain on Sports
- The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon
- By: L. Jon Wertheim
- Narrated by: Sam Sommers, Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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This is Your Brain on Sports is the book for sports fans searching for a deeper understanding of the games they watch and the people who play them. Sports Illustrated executive editor and bestselling author L. Jon Wertheim teams up with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers to take readers on a wild...
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This is Your Brain on Sports
- The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon
- Narrated by: Sam Sommers, Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 02-02-16
- Language: English
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The Knockout
- By: Andy Clarke
- Narrated by: Andy Clarke
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Swift, brutal, and utterly final: with knockouts, there are no grey areas; a KO is a KO. But what actually is a knockout, and why are we so fascinated by it? The Knockout is the most dramatic and devastating moment in sport. There is nothing to rival it: Not the last second goal, not the basket...
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Great insight to the knockout
- By richard sims on 29-08-24
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The Knockout
- Narrated by: Andy Clarke
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 28-05-24
- Language: English
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Imitation Games
- How Gambling Hijacked Sport
- By: Darragh McGee
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A cheeky flutter. All part of the game. Get closer to the action. A friendly, familiar voice, inviting you to join the real fans and get involved. What harm could it do… It has never been easier to stake a bet. Wall to wall adverts have hijacked every sporting event...
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Imitation Games
- How Gambling Hijacked Sport
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 28-05-26
- Language: English
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Game of My Life: Chicago Bears
- Memorable Stories of Bears Football
- By: Lew Freedman
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Since their founding in 1919, the Chicago Bears have carried the hearts and souls of football fans throughout the country. Now supporters of one of the NFL’s most storied franchises will go into the locker room and onto the turf with over 20 Bears legends in Game of My Life: Chicago Bears. In this newly revised edition, sportswriter Lew Freedman opens the doors to players’ private remembrances of how it was and how they reacted to the spotlight. Big touchdowns, career-making moments, and championship glory.
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Game of My Life: Chicago Bears
- Memorable Stories of Bears Football
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-02-13
- Language: English
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Remembering Kobe Bryant
- Players, Coaches, and Broadcasters Recall the Greatest Basketball Player of His Generation
- By: Sean Deveney, Jerry West - foreword
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Let Stephen Curry, Charles Barkley, Grant Hill, Reggie Miller, and more tell you what it was like to take the floor against one of the greatest of all time. With a foreword by Jerry West and a new tribute from the author about Kobe’s tragic death.
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Remembering Kobe Bryant
- Players, Coaches, and Broadcasters Recall the Greatest Basketball Player of His Generation
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-12-20
- Language: English
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What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?
- And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports
- By: Bill Gutman
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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What if Babe Ruth had not been sold to the Yankees in 1920 and instead played his entire career in Boston? What if Muhammad Ali had lost or quit in his first fight against Sonny Liston? What if the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had never moved to the West Coast? What if Vince Lombardi had become head coach of his hometown Giants instead of heading to Green Bay? How would sports history, and our perception of it, be different today?
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What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?
- And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 05-02-13
- Language: English
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