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Every Second Counts (Unabridged), Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins Sports Since the release of his best seller, It's Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong has enjoyed a new series of thrilling rides, from the birth of his twin daughters, to an astounding succession of Tour de France triumphs, to being chosen as Sportsman o... (7 hours and 33 min.) ukázka audio |
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (Unabridged), Eliot Asinof Sports "The Most Gigantic Sporting Swindle in the History of America!" This headline proclaiming the 1919 fix of the World Series startled millions of readers and focused the attention of the entire country on one of the most incredible episodes ever to be enact... (10 hours 22 min.) ukázka audio |
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Breaking Eighty: A Journey Through the Nine Fairways of Hell, Lee Eisenberg Sports In the 1980s, editor Lee Eisenberg redefined Esquire magazine and positioned it for its phenomenal popularity. In the '90s, he took on what was perhaps an even more daunting task: to devote 18 months of his life to the mastery of golf. Breaking... (2 hours and 22 min.) ukázka audio |
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Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf (Unabridged), Rick Reilly Sports Rick Reilly has been a senior sports writer for Sports Illustrated for the past 17 years, and has been named "Sports Writer of The Year" seven times. Now, he pokes his nose into the world of golf. How does he do it? By caddying ("looping") for top... (7 hours and 34 min.) ukázka audio |
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Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred-Year Rivalry Between the Yankees and the Red Sox (Unabridged), Mike Vaccaro Sports 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 spo... (13 hours and 44 min.) ukázka audio |
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The Masters: Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia (Unabridged), Curt Sampson Sports The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. It is the toughest ticket in sports, with black-market tickets selling for $10,000 and more. Success at Augusta National breeds legends, while failure can overshadow even the most brilliant of careers.... (10 hours and 6 min.) ukázka audio |
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Squeeze Play (Unabridged), Jane Leavy Sports Troubles begin for sports reporter A.B. Berkowitz when she is assigned to cover the Washington Senators, who are having a lousy season. When A.B. points out the team's ineptitude, the players refuse to talk to her, except to attempt to gross her out as of... (14 hours and 5 min.) ukázka audio |
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Golf in the Kingdom, Michael Murphy Sports Hailed as a classic when it first appeared in 1972, Michael Murphy's novel combines an amiable Zen mysticism with what many consider the very mystical - and sometimes downright frustrating - sport of golf. At its center is the charming guru of the Scottis... (6 hours) ukázka audio |
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The Sport of Queens (Unabridged), Dick Francis Sports Dick Francis, now an outstanding thriller writer, made his first career as a champion steeplechase jockey. In his autobiography he tells of his development as a rider, from his first attempts on a donkey to the heights of his eventual success. Dick Franci... (7 hours and 39 min.) ukázka audio |
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Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero (Unabridged), Leigh Montville Sports He was one of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend, and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? New York Times best-selling author Leigh Mon... (20 hours and 57 min.) ukázka audio |
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Bat Boy: My True Life Adventures Coming of Age with the New York Yankees (Unabridged), Matthew McGough Sports 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 f... (8 hours and 14 min.) ukázka audio |
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Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era (Unabridged), Gary M. Pomerantz Sports 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 100 points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers. In 196... (10 hours and 17 min.) |
| 553 | The Summer Game (Unabridged), Roger Angell Sports Roger Angell has witnessed many of the great and small events in the past 10 years of baseball. These writings, which first appeared in The New Yorker, provide a unique record of this turbulent decade, from the rise of California baseball and the c... (11 hours and 31 min.) ukázka audio |
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Below Another Sky, Rick Ridgeway Sports It is 1980. In the wake of a churning, terrifying avalanche on a remote Tibetan mountain face, Rick Ridgeway cradles his dying friend, Jonathan, in his arms and pledges to keep watch over Jonathan's infant daughter. The girl is named Asia, after the myste... (3 hours) ukázka audio |
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True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans, Joe Queenan Sports At last author Joe Queenan has turned his attention to a truly weighty issue: the wide world of sports fans. In True Believers he attempts to answer the bewildering question: What does anyone get out of it? For Yankees and Lakers fans the return on... (2 hours and 50 min.) ukázka audio |
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Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History (Unabridged), Jeremy Schaap Sports Lost in the annals of boxing is the sport's true Cinderella story. 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... (8 hours and 50 min.) ukázka audio |
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The Natural (Unabridged), Bernard Malamud Sports All he ever wanted was to be the best in baseball. Roy Hobbs, the protagonist of The Natural, announces this dream aloud - a display of hubris that invites divine retribution. Stricken down in his first attempt, Hobbs gets a second chance, as Berna... (7 hours 30 min.) ukázka audio |
| 558 | The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (Unabridged), W.P. Kinsella Sports In the summer of 1908, the world-champion Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, for an exhibition game against all-stars from the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, an amateur league. It was to be a short, pleasant, and, the Cubs thought, one-sided, game. Inste... (9 hours) ukázka audio |
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You Go, Girl! (Unabridged), Kim Doren with Charlie Jones Sports Girls' athletic participation in school and community sports programs is skyrocketing. Girls now comprise 33 percent of all high school athletes, representing a dramatic increase from four percent who participated in 1971, the year before the enactment of... (6 hours and 28 min.) ukázka audio |
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Pebble Beach Stories: Three Days from a Golfer's Notebook, David Berner Sports Anyone who plays golf has Pebble Beach on the mind. It's like dreaming of heaven. Pebble Beach Golf Links is, in many ways, the golfer's heaven. The audio documentary, Pebble Beach Stories: Three Days from a Golfer's Notebook, taps into that very p... (28 min.) ukázka audio |