20 Best History, Sports & Recreation Books
History, Sports & Recreation is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top History, Sports & Recreation audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 20 History, Sports & Recreation audiobooks below.
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The Baseball 100
- By: Joe Posnanski
- Narrator: Cary Hite
- Length: 30 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.75(1407 ratings)
4.75(1407 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0039.99 USDNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pagesNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year
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“An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a remarkable achievement.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will.
Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious, The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 greatest players. In the book’s introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator George F. Will marvels, “Posnanski must already have lived more than 200 years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly fascinating sport?”
Baseball’s legends come alive in these pages, which are not merely rankings but vibrant profiles of the game’s all-time greats. Posnanski dives into the biographies of iconic Hall of Famers, unfairly forgotten All-Stars, talents of today, and more. He doesn’t rely just on records and statistics–he lovingly retraces players’ origins, illuminates their characters, and places their accomplishments in the context of baseball’s past and present. Just how good a pitcher is Clayton Kershaw in the twenty-first- century game compared to Greg Maddux dueling with the juiced hitters of the nineties? How do the career and influence of Hank Aaron compare to Babe Ruth’s? Which player in the top ten most deserves to be resurrected from history?
No compendium of baseball’s legendary geniuses could be complete without the players of the segregated Negro Leagues, men whose extraordinary careers were largely overlooked by sportswriters at the time and unjustly lost to history. Posnanski writes about the efforts of former Negro Leaguers to restore sidelined Black athletes to their due honor, and draws upon the deep troves of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and extensive interviews with the likes of Buck O’Neil to illuminate the accomplishments of players such as pitchers Satchel Paige and Smokey Joe Williams; outfielders Oscar Charleston, Monte Irvin, and Cool Papa Bell; first baseman Buck Leonard; shortstop Pop Lloyd; catcher Josh Gibson; and many, many more.
The Baseball 100 treats readers to the whole rich pageant of baseball history in a single volume. Chapter by chapter, Posnanski invites readers to examine common lore with brand-new eyes and learn stories that have long gone unheard. The epic and often emotional reading experience mirrors Posnanski’s personal odyssey to capture the history and glory of baseball like no one else, fueled by his boundless love for the sport.
Engrossing, surprising, and heartfelt, The Baseball 100 is a magisterial tribute to the game of baseball and the stars who have played it. -
The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell
- By: Lonnie Wheeler
- Narrator: David Sadzin
- Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.29(244 ratings)
4.29(244 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe first full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer James “Cool Papa” Bell (1903-1991) was a legend in Black baseball, a lightning-fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Bell’sThe first full biography of the star Negro Leaguer and Hall of Famer
James “Cool Papa” Bell (1903-1991) was a legend in Black baseball, a lightning-fast switch hitter elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. Bell’s speed was extraordinary; as Satchel Paige famously quipped, he was so fast he could flip a light switch and be in bed before the room got dark.
In The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell, experienced baseball writer and historian Lonnie Wheeler recounts the life of this extraordinary player, a key member of some of the greatest Negro League teams in history.
Born to sharecroppers in Mississippi, Bell was part of the Great Migration, the movement of African Americans from the southern states to the northern states from 1910 through 1930. In St. Louis, baseball saved Bell from a life working in slaughterhouses. Wheeler charts Bell’s ups and downs in life and in baseball, in the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico, where he went to escape American racism and major league baseball’s color line.
Rich in context and suffused in myth, this is a treat for fans of baseball history.
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Bums
- By: Peter Golenbock
- Narrator: Raymond Todd
- Length: 19 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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4.29(251 ratings)
4.29(251 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.95 USDBefore the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the most colorful and beloved teams in baseball. Even today, they remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. In Bums, bestselling author Peter Golenbock hasBefore the team headed to Los Angeles in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers were one of the most colorful and beloved teams in baseball. Even today, they remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. In Bums, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has compiled a fascinating oral history of the Ebbets Field heroes with recollections from former players, writers, front-office executives, and faithful fans. Dodgers’ legends such as Pee Wee Reese, Leo Durocher, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Ralph Branca, and many others recall the ups and downs of that unforgettable ball club in their own words.
Brooklyn fans and other baseball enthusiasts will savor these warmly nostalgic accounts, which range from reminiscences of the magic of Ebbets Field to tales of Jackie Robinson’s historic debut (the Shot Heard ‘Round the World), the triumphant 1955 season, and the ultimate betrayal by Walter O’Malley.
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The Game
- By: Jon Pessah
- Narrator: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 20 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 05, 2015
- Language: English
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4.21(564 ratings)
4.21(564 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USDThe incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball’s last twenty years. In the fall of 1992, America’s National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time inThe incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball’s last twenty years.... Read moreIn the fall of 1992, America’s National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players’ growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game’s very foundation.
It is a tipping point for baseball, a crucial moment in the game’s history that catalyzes a struggle for power by three strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. It’s their uneasy alliance at the end of decades of struggle that pulls the game back from the brink and turns it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches them all.
This is the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals — with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and many more.
Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a stunning achievement: a rigorously reported book and the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive account of how an enormous struggle for power turns disaster into baseball’s Golden Age.
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Hail Mary
- By: Britni De La Cretaz
- Narrator: Kimberly Austin
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 21, 2021
- Language: English
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4.21(165 ratings)
4.21(165 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn 1967, a Cleveland businessman had a brilliant idea: why not start a women’s football team? It was conceived as a gimmick and a publicity stunt in the vein of the Harlem Globetrotters. He recruited women to compete as a traveling footballIn 1967, a Cleveland businessman had a brilliant idea: why not start a women’s football team? It was conceived as a gimmick and a publicity stunt in the vein of the Harlem Globetrotters. He recruited women to compete as a traveling football troupe; much to his surprise, he learned that women really wanted to play–and play hard. Hail Mary is the story of the unlikely rise of the National Women’s Football League and the players who loved a game that society told them they shouldn’t be playing. In nineteen cities around the country, against the backdrop of second-wave feminism and the passage of Title IX, these athletes broke new barriers and showed adoring crowds what women were capable of physically. Thousands of people came to watch–perhaps to gawk at first but then, in the end, to cheer. Hail Mary is a rollicking chronicle of fearless women-players on the Detroit Demons, the Toledo Troopers, the LA Dandelions, and more–bringing us into the stadiums where they broke records, the small-town lesbian bars where they were recruited, and the backrooms where the league was conceived, and where it ended. Hail Mary is a celebration of women athletes and their fight on and off the field–and a powerful story of the league that changed their lives and the course of women’s sports.
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Greater Than Gold
- By: David Boudia
- Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: August 02, 2016
- Language: English
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4.16(265 ratings)
4.16(265 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDOne of America’s most heralded young divers, David Boudia twice went for Olympic gold, training obsessively and whole-heartedly for success. In his first Olympics, he failed miserably, not winning a single medal. Four years later saw aOne of America’s most heralded young divers, David Boudia twice went for Olympic gold, training obsessively and whole-heartedly for success. In his first Olympics, he failed miserably, not winning a single medal. Four years later saw a different story: he mounted the podium twice, winning both gold and bronze. The difference? In the intervening years, he’d changed the focus of his quest from seeking glory for himself to giving glory to God. In Greater Than Gold, Boudia provides a behind-the-scenes access to the rarefied world of world-class athletics while also showing readers that when they place their hope in God, they receive what they’ve been seeking all along.
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After the Miracle
- By: Art Shamsky
- Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.13(161 ratings)
4.13(161 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USD“A great and insightful” (Keith Hernandez, New York Mets legend and broadcaster) New York Times bestselling account of an iconic team in baseball history: the 1969 New York Mets–a last-place team that turned it all around in just“A great and insightful” (Keith Hernandez, New York Mets legend and broadcaster) New York Times bestselling account of an iconic team in baseball history: the 1969 New York Mets–a last-place team that turned it all around in just one season–told by ’69 Mets outfielder Art Shamsky, Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver, and other teammates who reminisce about that legendary season and their enduring bonds decades later.
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The New York Mets franchise began in 1962 and the team finished in last place nearly every year. When the 1969 season began, fans weren’t expecting much from “the Lovable Losers.” But as the season progressed, the Mets inched closer to first place and then eventually clinched the National League pennant. They were underdogs against the formidable Baltimore Orioles, but beat them in five games to become world champions. No one had predicted it. In fact, fans could hardly believe it happened. Suddenly they were “the Miracle Mets.”
Playing right field for the ’69 Mets was Art Shamsky, who had stayed in touch with his former teammates over the years. He hoped to get together with star pitcher Tom Seaver (who would win the Cy Young award as the best pitcher in the league in 1969 and go on to become the first Met elected to the Hall of Fame), but Seaver was ailing and could not travel. So, Shamsky organized a visit to “Tom Terrific” in California, accompanied by the #2 pitcher, Jerry Koosman, outfielder Ron Swoboda, and shortstop Bud Harrelson. Together they recalled the highlights of that amazing season as they reminisced about what changed the Mets’ fortunes in 1969.
In this “enjoyable tale of a storybook season” (Kirkus Reviews), and with the help of sportswriter Erik Sherman, Shamsky has written the “revealing” (New York Newsday) After the Miracle for the 1969 Mets. “This heartfelt, nostalgic memoir will delight baseball fans of all ages and allegiances” (Publishers Weekly). It’s a book that every Mets fan must own. -
The Eternal Summer
- By: Curt Sampson
- Narrator: Dennis McKee
- Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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4.02(127 ratings)
4.02(127 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDWas there ever a year in golf like 1960? It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the game collided. Television, still a new medium, provided aWas there ever a year in golf like 1960? It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the game collided. Television, still a new medium, provided a fresh window to the show and enabled this “rich man’s sport” to win over millions of new fans.
Here was Arnold Palmer, the working man’s hero, “sweating, chain-smoking, shirt-tail flying,” and winning, it seemed, every tournament with a last-second charge. Ben Hogan, the greatest player of the 1950s, was Palmer’s opposite, a perfectionist battling the twin demons of age and nerves. And making his debut in the big time was a chunky, crew-cut college kid who seemed to have the makings of a champion–twenty-year-old Jack Nicklaus.
Would Palmer win the mythical Grand Slam of golf? Could Hogan win one more major tournament? Was Nicklaus the real thing? Even more than an intimate portrait of these men and their exciting times, The Eternal Summer is also an entertaining, perceptive, and hypnotically readable exploration of professional golf in America.
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The Majors
- By: John Feinstein
- Narrator: John Feinstein
- Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 04, 2013
- Language: English
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4(1419 ratings)
4(1419 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.98 USDWHAT DOES IT TAKE to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the four tournaments — the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship — known collectively as the majors,WHAT DOES IT TAKE to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the four tournaments — the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship — known collectively as the majors, John Feinstein takes us where the television cameras never go, both off the links and “inside the ropes”, as he reveals the special challenges and rituals, the frustrations and exhilaration, that mark the lives and careers of the world’s greatest golfers.... Read more -
The Echoing Green
- By: Joshua Prager
- Narrator: Joshua Prager
- Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.98(325 ratings)
3.98(325 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.95 USDThe Untold Story Behind The Shot Heard Round The World The 1951 regular baseball season was as good as over. The Brooklyn Dodgers led the New York Giants by three runs with just three outs to go in their third and final playoff game. Not once inThe Untold Story Behind The Shot Heard Round The World
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The 1951 regular baseball season was as good as over. The Brooklyn Dodgers led the New York Giants by three runs with just three outs to go in their third and final playoff game. Not once in the 278 preceding playoff and World Series games had a team overcome a three-run deficit in the ninth inning. But New York rallied, and at 3:58 pm on October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hit a home run off Ralph Branca. The Giants won the pennant. The Echoing Green follows the reverberations of that one moment from the West Wing of the White House to the Sing Sing death house to the Polo Grounds clubhouse where, in Harlem, a home run forever turned hitter and pitcher to hero and goat.
It was also in that center-field block of concrete where, after a home run, one of the Giant’s coaches tucked away a Wollensak telescope. The spyglass would remain undiscovered until 2001 when Joshua Prager laid bare on the front page of the Wall Street Journal a Giant secret: from July 20, 1951, through the very day of the legendary game, the orange and black stole the finger signals of opposing catchers. The Echoing Green places that revelation at the heart of a larger story, recreating in extravagant detail the 1951 pennant race and illuminating as never before the impact of both one moment and a long-guarded secret on the lives of Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca.
A wonderfully evocative image of the great American pastime, The Echoing Green is baseball history, social history and biography — an irresistible story from any angle. -
Two Hours
- By: Ed Caesar
- Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 27, 2015
- Language: English
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3.97(1159 ratings)
3.97(1159 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDTwo hours, to cover 26 miles and 385 yards. Its running’s Everest, a feat once seen as impossible for the human body. Now we can glimpse the mountaintop. The sub-two hour marathon requires an exceptional feat of speed, mental strength, andTwo hours, to cover 26 miles and 385 yards. Its running’s Everest, a feat once seen as impossible for the human body. Now we can glimpse the mountaintop. The sub-two hour marathon requires an exceptional feat of speed, mental strength, and endurance. The pioneer will have to endure more, live braver, plan better, and be luckier than any who has run before. Ed Caesar takes us into the world of elite runners: the greatest marathoners on earth. From big-money races in the United States to remote villages in Kenya, Two Hours is a book about a beautiful sport, that few people understand. It’s about talent, heroism, and refusing to accept defeat. It’s a book about running that is about much more than running… it’s a human drama like no other.
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Lou Gehrig
- By: Alan D. Gaff
- Narrator: Angelo Di Loreto
- Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.94(452 ratings)
3.94(452 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThe lost memoir from Lou Gehrig–“a compelling rumination by a baseball icon and a tragic hero” (Sports Illustrated) and “a fitting tribute to an inspiring baseball legend” (Publishers Weekly).At the tender age ofThe lost memoir from Lou Gehrig–“a compelling rumination by a baseball icon and a tragic hero” (Sports Illustrated) and “a fitting tribute to an inspiring baseball legend” (Publishers Weekly).
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At the tender age of twenty-four, Lou Gehrig decided to tell the remarkable story of his life and career. He was one of the most famous athletes in the country, in the midst of a record-breaking season with the legendary 1927 World Series-winning Yankees. In an effort to grow Lou’s star, pioneering sports agent Christy Walsh arranged for Lou’s tale of baseball greatness to syndicate in newspapers across the country. Those columns were largely forgotten and lost to history–until now.
Lou comes alive in this “must-read” (Tyler Kepner, The New York Times) memoir. It is an inspiring, heartfelt rags-to-riches tale about a poor kid from New York who became one of the most revered baseball players of all time.
Fourteen years after his account, Lou would tragically die from ALS, a neuromuscular disorder now known as Lou Gherig’s Disease. His poignant autobiography is followed by an insightful biographical essay by historian Alan D. Gaff. Here is Lou–Hall of Famer, All Star, MVP, an “athlete who epitomized the American dream” (Christian Science Monitor)–back at bat. -
When the Boys Came Back
- By: Frederick Turner
- Narrator: Brian Emerson
- Length: 9 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.89(33 ratings)
3.89(33 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn the aftermath of World War II, few events in the United States were as eagerly awaited as baseball’s spring training. But the national pastime was as unsettled as the rest of the country. Had some of the stars seen their careers ended byIn the aftermath of World War II, few events in the United States were as eagerly awaited as baseball’s spring training. But the national pastime was as unsettled as the rest of the country.
Had some of the stars seen their careers ended by their service? How would wartime players fare against returning veterans?
These questions would be answered as the dramatic season unfolded–a season that included Jackie Robinson’s signing by the Brooklyn Dodgers, a pennant race in the National League that ended in history’s first tie, challenges from a rival Mexican league, and a World Series culminated in the seventh game by Enos Slaughter’s legendary dash from first to home.
Drawing on interviews with many of the players who wrote the season’s history, Frederick Turner brings this historic chapter in American culture to life.
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From Hang Time to Prime Time
- By: Pete Croatto
- Narrator: Feodor Chin
- Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.86(123 ratings)
3.86(123 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDPerfect 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.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.
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Far beyond simply being a sports league, the NBA has become an entertainment and pop culture juggernaut. From all kinds of team logo merchandise to officially branded video games and players crossing over into reality television, film, fashion lines, and more, there is an inseparable line between sports and entertainment. But only four decades ago, this would have been unthinkable.
Featuring writing that leaps off the page with energy and wit, journalist and basketball fan Pete Croatto takes us behind the scenes to the meetings that lead to the monumental American Basketball Association-National Basketball Association merger in 1976, revolutionizing the NBA’s image. He pays homage to legendary talents including Julius “Dr. J” Erving, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan and reveals how two polar-opposite rookies, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, led game attendance to skyrocket and racial lines to dissolve. Croatto also dives into CBS’s personality-driven coverage of key players, as well as other cable television efforts, which launched NBA players into unprecedented celebrity status.
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America’s Game
- By: Jerry Rice
- Narrator: Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 18 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 04, 2020
- Language: English
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3.8(87 ratings)
3.8(87 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDA celebration of 100 years of the NFL from Hall of Fame receiver and bestselling author Jerry Rice! “This book is an amazing compilation of the game’s history as seen through the eyes of my friend Jerry Rice, aka The GOAT. You are goingA celebration of 100 years of the NFL from Hall of Fame receiver and bestselling author Jerry Rice!
“This book is an amazing compilation of the game’s history as seen through the eyes of my friend Jerry Rice, aka The GOAT. You are going to love this book almost as much as you loved watching Jerry play!” –Barry Sanders, NFL Hall of Fame Class of 2004
The authors of the New York Times bestseller 50 Years, 50 Moments celebrate the first 100 years of the National Football League, interweaving history, personal stories, memories, and observations of some of its greatest players, coaches, and advocates to chronicle football’s amazing evolution from a fledgling regional fly-by-night operation into a multi-billion global brand and one of America’s leading franchises.
Over the past century, professional football has transformed from a game played in leather helmets on cow pastures to one of the most high-tech, popular sports on the planet. In this entertaining and concise history, Jerry Rice and Randy O. Williams celebrate the NFL’s centennial, bringing together colorful memories, insights, and personal experiences and observations from the heroes, losers, innovators, and defining legends who have played the game at its highest level. America’s Game is filled with inside stories of the league’s fiercest rivalries, closest competitions, and most memorable characters, from the early days of Red “The Galloping Ghost” Grange and “Slingin'” Sammy Baugh to Jim Brown and “Broadway” Joe Namath to Lawrence Taylor, Jerry Rice, and Tom Brady.
Cowboy fans will never forget how Roger Staubach’s Hail Mary lifted his team to a last-second playoff victory over the Vikings. Patriot followers will always point to The Tuck Rule Game as a franchise landmark where Adam Vinatieri’s two clutch kicks in deep snow propelled his team to victory over the Raiders. Generations of Steelers fans will celebrate James Harrison’s electrifying 100-yard interception return for a touchdown in Super Bowl XLIII. All are among the most memorable moments in NFL history. Divided by increments of twenty-five years, each section of America’s Game includes the authors’ selections for their “All Star” players and teams.
America’s Game is a unique tribute to this enduring cultural phenomenon, and will become the authoritative tribute to all that is great about the sport Americans–and the world–loves.
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Baseball Forever!
- By: Jason Turbow
- Narrator: Bob Costas
- Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.79(47 ratings)
3.79(47 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDJohn Miley has compiled the most comprehensive audio account of baseball history in existence–a vast and wildly entertaining assemblage of game tapes from throughout the sport’s history. His archive contains classic moments, like theJohn Miley has compiled the most comprehensive audio account of baseball history in existence–a vast and wildly entertaining assemblage of game tapes from throughout the sport’s history. His archive contains classic moments, like the Shot Heard ’round the World, and amazing feats, like Carl Hubbell striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin–in order–in the 1934 All-Star Game. Narrated by Bob Costas, Baseball Forever! brings you highlights from Miley’s collection, with numerous clips available for the first time since their original transmission.
Bestselling author Jason Turbow (The Baseball Codes) mines the archive with Miley himself, taking us to some of baseball’s greatest settings–Yankee Stadium, Ebbets Field, Fenway Park–while guided by the game’s legendary broadcasters, like Mel Allen, Red Barber, Harry Caray, and Vin Scully. Miley and Turbow have carefully selected an abundance of highlights for Baseball Forever! that is sure to inform, entertain, and appeal to anybody nostalgic for baseball’s storied history.
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Splash!
- By: Howard Means
- Narrator: Dustin Tucker
- Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 02, 2020
- Language: English
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3.72(131 ratings)
3.72(131 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDChoose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming!From man’s first recorded dip into what’s now the driest spot on earth to the splashing, sparkling pool party in your backyard, humans have been getting wet forChoose a stroke and get paddling through the human history of swimming!
... Read moreFrom man’s first recorded dip into what’s now the driest spot on earth to the splashing, sparkling pool party in your backyard, humans have been getting wet for 10,000 years. And for most of modern history, swimming has caused a ripple that touches us all–the heroes and the ordinary folk; the real and the mythic.Splash! dives into Egypt, winds through ancient Greece and Rome, flows mostly underground through the Dark and Middle Ages (at least in Europe), and then reemerges in the wake of the Renaissance before taking its final lap at today’s Olympic games. Along the way, it kicks away the idea that swimming is just about moving through water, about speed or great feats of aquatic endurance, and shows you how much more it can be. Its history offers a multi-tiered tour through religion, fashion, architecture, sanitation and public health, colonialism, segregation and integration, sexism, sexiness, guts, glory, and much, much more.Unique and compelling, Splash! sweeps across the whole of humankind’s swimming history–and just like jumping into a pool on a hot summer’s day, it has fun along the way. -
One for the Record
- By: George Plimpton
- Narrator: Rick Adamson
- Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 26, 2016
- Language: English
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3.6(32 ratings)
3.6(32 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USDThe inside story of Hank Aaron’s chase for the home run record, repackaged and with a foreword by Bob Costas and new material from the Plimpton Archives. In One For the Record, George Plimpton recounts Hank Aaron’s thrilling race toThe inside story of Hank Aaron’s chase for the home run record, repackaged and with a foreword by Bob Costas and new material from the Plimpton Archives.... Read moreIn One For the Record, George Plimpton recounts Hank Aaron’s thrilling race to become the new home run champion. Amidst media frenzy and death threats, Aaron sought to beat Babe Ruth’s record. In 1974, he finally succeeded.
A fascinating examination of the psychology of baseball players, One For the Record gives an absorbing account of the men on the mound who had to face Aaron. But the book’s true genius lies in the portrait of Aaron himself, and his discussions on his philosophy on hitting and the game of baseball.
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The Progress of the Seasons
- By: George V. Higgins
- Narrator: Ian Esmo
- Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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3.51(31 ratings)
3.51(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDBeginning in 1946, a then eight-year-old George Higgins, accompanied by father and grandfather, began taking the long train ride out to Fenway Park to find some truth in immortals like Doerr, DiMaggio, York, and Williams, and later, Yastremski,Beginning in 1946, a then eight-year-old George Higgins, accompanied by father and grandfather, began taking the long train ride out to Fenway Park to find some truth in immortals like Doerr, DiMaggio, York, and Williams, and later, Yastremski, Marty Barrett, and many more. This is a book about baseball and about the Boston Red Sox; but that is only part of the story. Beyond the games, the book turns on thoughts about family and continuity and, of course, the progress of the seasons. There’s a magical moment when Higgins calls on his own mythic Emily to check the all-time lineup with his deceased forebears. By then, you’ve come to know what the author’s values have in common with those in Our Town, and why certain professional athletes achieve immortality and others don’t. The Progress of the Seasons confirms what admirers of the author’s sparkling accurate prose already know: Higgins is to writing what Ted Williams was to baseball, an all-star.
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The Great Chase
- By: Harvey Rosenfeld
- Narrator: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.33(3 ratings)
3.33(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDThe 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 heardThe 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, and memoirs of participants are used to describe the intense rivalry and provide a day-by-day look at the Giants’ pennant run, including a fascinating examination of the strategy of the final game.
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Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.
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