Sports & Recreation audiobooks

The Lost Explorer - Abridged

By: Conrad Anker & David Roberts

Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn & Michael McGlone

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest, leaving open the tantalizing question of whether they had reached the summit of Everest twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered Mallory's body on Everest and helped solve one... Read more

Namath: A Biography

By: Mark Kriegel

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 21 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the  few sports heroes to transcend the game he played. Novelist and former sports-columnist Mark Kriegel’s bestselling biography of the iconic quarterback details his journey from steel-town pool halls to the upper reaches of American celebrity—and beyond. The first of his... Read more

Fit to Lead - Abridged

By: Christopher P. Neck, Tedd L. Mitchell, Charles ...

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Improve your body, improve your career: An executive fitness plan by experts from the Cooper Wellness Clinic

• Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza, runs four miles a day and spend 30 minutes on the Nautilus machine
• Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare, uses time between flights to jog around airports
• Julian C. Day,... Read more

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer

By: Warren St. John

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fresh and funny… St. John has crafter a winner.” —Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic

In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you’ve never met. . . . Or in the... Read more

Funny Cide - Abridged

By: Sally Jenkins & Funny Cide Ventures, LLC

Narrated by: Jamey Sheridan

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They had no business being there. They were up against million-dollar horses owned by patricians, oilmen, Arab sheiks, and Hollywood producers. They were ten regular guys, and all they wanted was to win a race. Instead, they won the hearts of America.

In 2003, a three-year-old with the unlikely name of Funny Cide became "the people's horse," the... Read more

Ted Williams - Abridged

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He was The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. 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? What motivated him to interrupt his Hall of Fame career twice to serve his country as a... Read more

The Sexy Years - Abridged

By: Suzanne Somers

Narrated by: Suzanne Somers

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Getting older can be brutal—women gain weight, lose their sex drive, experience hot flashes, suffer memory loss, become short-tempered, find it difficult to sleep, and on and on. It’s not so easy for men, either—they start to lose energy and stamina as they age, too (and they have to live with women going through menopause). After years of... Read more

Why I Love Baseball

By: Larry King

Narrated by: Larry King

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Larry King was a true-blue baseball fanatic. A lifelong love affair began the night he attended a Dodgers game at Ebbets Field as a kid in 1940s Brooklyn. That was a simpler era in America's history, a time when tickets to a game cost fifty cents and parish priests prayed for Gil Hodges to break out of a slump. In this heartfelt valentine to... Read more

The Carolina Way

By: Dean Smith

Narrated by: Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell & John Kilgo

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina basketball team with unsurpassed success. Now, in The Carolina Way, he explains his coaching philosophy and shows readers how to apply it to the leadership and team-building challenges they face in their own lives. In his wry, sensible, wise way, Coach Smith takes us through... Read more

Ted Williams

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 21 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

He was The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. 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? What motivated him to interrupt his Hall of Fame career twice to serve his country as a... Read more

The Sexy Years

By: Suzanne Somers

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Getting older can be brutal—women gain weight, lose their sex drive, experience hot flashes, suffer memory loss, become short-tempered, find it difficult to sleep, and on and on. It’s not so easy for men, either—they start to lose energy and stamina as they age, too (and they have to live with women going through menopause). After years of... Read more

The Stone Cold Truth - Abridged

By: Steve Austin, J.R. Ross & Dennis Brent

Narrated by: Steve Austin

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WWE Superstar Stone Cold Steve Austin shares an unvarnished take on his life and his days as a wrestler from growing up in small town Texas to his long-awaited return to the world of professional wrestling.

He's wrestled under many names, but to the fans he is and will always be Stone Cold Steve Austin™.

His quick wit and colorful use of... Read more

Into the Bermuda Triangle

By: Gian J. Quasar

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Still unsolved, still baffling, still claiming new victims. Here are the untold stories. A pilot reports a strange haze enveloping his plane, then disappears; eleven hours after fuel starvation, as if calling from a void, he is heard 600 miles away. He requests permission to land, then vanishes forever. A freighter steaming over placid seas... Read more

Lita - Abridged

By: Amy Dumas & Michael Krugman

Narrated by: Amy Dumas

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Lita™ -- see her just once in the ring and you can never forget it. The breathtaking off-the-top-rope fearlessness that she shows keeps you on the edge of your seat. You simply can't believe she's going to be able to pull off the move, and then Lita™ takes it to the next level. That's her reality, that's why she is a WWE™ Superstar.
Taking... Read more

The Cruelest Miles - Abridged

By: Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury

Narrated by: Margot Dionne

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The year is 1925. It is sixty degrees below zero. The wind sweeps tons of snow over the deep-frozen Alaskan landscape. The nearest railhead is seven hundred miles away. Airplanes cannot fly. The way to Nome is blocked by a treacherous frozen sound, an icebound port, and mountains to the west. But there is a diphtheria epidemic in Nome. The... Read more

True Believers - Abridged

By: Joe Queenan

Narrated by: Joe Queenan

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author Joe Queenan's True Believers explores the world of sports fans in an attempt to understand the inexplicable: What does anyone get out of it?

For Yankee, Cowboy, and Laker fans the answer is fairly clear: the return on investment is relatively high. But why do people root so passionately for formerly inept teams like the Boston... Read more

The Teammates

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Tate Donovan

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shares the moving story of four baseball players and the friendships they forged as teammates—and the impact they had off the field. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years... Read more

Moneyball - Abridged

By: Michael Lewis

Narrated by: Michael Lewis

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur... Read more

Who's Your Caddy? - Abridged

By: Rick Reilly

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the world’s most famous golfers, and some celebrity duffers, recounting it all in this hilarious and revealing look at the world of golf.

Who knows a golfer best? Who’s with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering,... Read more

Ultimate Fitness - Abridged

By: Gina Kolata

Narrated by: Gina Kolata

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling science reporter from The New York Times tells us what works and what doesn't when we work out

Ultimate Fitness is Gina Kolata's compelling journey into the world of American physical fitness over the past thirty years. It is a funny, eye-opening, brow-sweating investigation into fads, fiction, and the science and hucksterism of... Read more

My Losing Season

By: Pat Conroy

Narrated by: Chuck Montgomery

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself—by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini
 
During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military... Read more

Golf for Enlightenment

By: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Deepak Chopra has discovered the delights—and frustrations—of golf, and he is passionate about the game. Confronted by the wild ups and downs of his own play, he consulted with golf professionals and developed a new approach to the game that any golfer can follow—from the novice to the expert. The results can be measured not only in increased... Read more

Lilias Yoga Complete

By: Lilias Folan

Narrated by: Lilias Folan

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Now available on CD, this perennial favorite with over 50,000 copies in print includes a comprehensive course for students of any level by yoga guru Lilias Folan

Yoga Journal reports that nearly 15 million U.S. adults currently practice yoga, and more than 35 million Americans intend to try yoga in the next twelve months. Now, Lilias Folan,... Read more

Get with the Program - Abridged

By: Bob Greene

Narrated by: Bob Greene

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

WE ALL KNOW THAT LOSING WEIGHT IS THE EASY PART.
It¹s keeping the weight off that¹s hard. In Get with the Program! Bob Greene gives you the keys to losing weight and staying fit for a lifetime.
The four-phase plan in Get with the Program! is like having your own personal trainer take you through the psychological, physical, and emotional... Read more