Sports & Recreation bestsellers
The top 50 Sports & Recreation audiobooks on Libro.fm based on sales from our 2,000+ partner bookstore locations.
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Good for a Girl
A Woman Running in a Man's World
By Lauren Fleshman
Narrated by: Lauren Fleshman
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes
“Women’s sports have needed a manifesto for a very long time, and with Lauren Fleshman’s Good for a Girl... Read more »
Bestseller #2
Breath
The New Science of a Lost Art
By James Nestor
Narrated by: James Nestor
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020
Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR
“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love
No matter what you... Read more »
Bestseller #3
The Well-Gardened Mind
The Restorative Power of Nature
By Sue Stuart-Smith
Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
The Well-Gardened Mind
“I listened to this on audio (from libro.fm/avidbookshop) and really loved it. I'm a longtime lover of being outdoors, but it wasn't until the pandemic hit that I started growing potted plants on my own in earnest. This book highlights the ways in which gardening, in all its forms, has a demonstrably positive impact on your mind, your body, your relationships, and the world. Just a lovely tome no matter if you're never planning to take care of plants or if you're a master gardener. ”
Janet, Avid Bookshop
Bestseller #4
Choosing to Run
A Memoir
By Des Linden
Length: TBA
Featuring both the story of an historic, unforgettable win and insight into the life of an indelible champion, Choosing to Run is a truly inspirational memoir from Boston Marathon winner and Olympian Des Linden, sharing her personal story and what motivates her to keep showing up.
When Des woke up on April 16, 2018, the morning of the Boston... Read more »
Bestseller #5
Eiger Dreams
Ventures Among Men and Mountains
By Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Philip Franklin
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. . In this collection of thirteen of his finest essays and reporting – including the essay, “Is Yosemite Going To The Dogs” – Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself struggled with solo... Read more »
Bestseller #6
Beautiful on the Outside
A Memoir
By Adam Rippon
Narrated by: Adam Rippon
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Former Olympic figure skater and self-professed America's Sweetheart Adam Rippon shares his underdog journey from beautiful mess to outrageous success in this hilarious, big-hearted memoir that the Washington Post calls "comedic gold."
Your mom probably told you it's what on the inside that counts. Well, then she was never a competitive figure... Read more »
Bestseller #7
Bravey
Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas
By Alexi Pappas
Narrated by: Alexi Pappas & Maya Rudolph
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
The Olympic runner, actress, filmmaker and writer Alexi Pappas shares what she’s learned about confidence, self-reliance, mental health, embracing pain, and achieving your dreams.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE • “Heartbreaking and hilarious.”—Mindy Kaling • “A beautiful read.”—Ruth Reichl • “Essential guidance to anyone... Read more »
Bestseller #8
Down to Earth
Gardening Wisdom
By Monty Don
Narrated by: Monty Don
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Unrivalled gardening wisdom from Monty Don, including essential tips, knowledge and musings from his 50 years of gardening experience.
This is Monty Don right beside you in the garden, challenging norms and sharing advice.
Discover Monty's thoughts and garden ideas around nature, seasons, color, design, pests, flowering shrubs, containers and... Read more »
Bestseller #9
The Boys in the Boat
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
By Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
The Boys in the Boat
“Determined to beat the odds, nine working-class boys from the University of Washington's rowing team overcome a depressive beginning to defeat the world at Hitler's 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Underdogs from day one, fighting poverty and privilege along the way, this crew shocks all with their unbelievable come-from-behind effort to become gold medalists. Filled with details of a post-Depression and a pre-WWII era, this is the inspiring tale of a team winning the hearts of a nation while achieving their lifelong dream. Read by Edward Herrman, "The Boys in the Boat" is a must-listen for all non-fiction fans.”
Kristin, McLean & Eakin Booksellers
Bestseller #10
Eating to Extinction
The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By Dan Saladino
Narrated by: Dan Saladino
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes
This audiobook is read by the author.
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s vanishing foods and his argument for why they matter now more than ever
Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six...
Bestseller #11
Grandma Gatewood's Walk
The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
By Ben Montgomery
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's... Read more »
Bestseller #12
Outdoor Kids in an Inside World
Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature
By Steven Rinella
Narrated by: Steven Rinella
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An imperative call to action” (Nick Offerman) to get children off their screens and into nature, with tips for bonding activities that teach the importance of outside time and build tough, curious, competent kids—from the New York Times bestselling author and host of the TV series and podcast MeatEater
“A revelation... Read more »
Bestseller #13
Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition
Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
By Rich Roll
Narrated by: Rich Roll
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Finding Ultra is Rich Roll’s incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever.
One cool evening in October 2006, the night before he was to turn forty, Rich experienced a chilling glimpse of his future. Nearly fifty pounds overweight at the time and unable to climb the stairs without...
Read more »Bestseller #14
The Talent Code
Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
By Daniel Coyle
Narrated by: John Farrell
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.
Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by...
Bestseller #15
Lessons from Plants
By Beronda L. Montgomery
Narrated by: York Whitaker
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
We know that plants are important. They maintain the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. They nourish other living organisms and supply psychological benefits to humans as well, improving our moods and beautifying the landscape around us. But plants don’t just passively provide. They also take action. Beronda L.... Read more »
Bestseller #16
Mini-Forest Revolution
Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World
By Hannah Lewis
Narrated by: Tia Rider
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
For listeners who enjoyed Finding the Mother Tree and The Hidden Life of Trees comes the first-ever book about a movement to restore biodiversity in our cities and towns by transforming empty lots, backyards, and degraded land into mini-forests. Author Hannah Lewis is the forest maker turning asphalt into ecosystems to save the planet, and she... Read more »
Bestseller #17
Winning Ugly
Mental Warfare in Tennis---Lessons from a Master
By Brad Gilbert & Steve Jamison
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
He's been called the best in the world at the mental game of tennis. Brad Gilbert's strokes may not be pretty, but looks aren't everything. He has beaten the Tour's biggest names—all by playing his "ugly" game.
Now, in Winning Ugly, Gilbert teaches recreational players how to win more often without necessarily even changing their strokes. The key... Read more »
Bestseller #18
America's Game
The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation
By Michael MacCambridge
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 22 hours 32 minutes
It's difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country's dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an... Read more »
Bestseller #19
Paper Tiger
An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros
By Tom Coyne
Narrated by: Kyle Tait
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Think country-club clinic meets Navy Seals training. I will pay any price, bear any burden, leave my home to follow the seasons, build my own swing studio in the basement, construct a practice green in my backyard. . . . Everything the big boys have access to, I want double.
Like most amateur golfers, Tom Coyne had often wondered whether the... Read more »
Bestseller #20
Clemente - Abridged
The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
By David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Discover the remarkable life of Roberto Clemente—one of the most accomplished—and beloved—baseball heroes of his generation from Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss.
On New Year’s Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero’s death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food... Read more »
Bestseller #21
Spotting Danger Before It Spots You
Build Situational Awareness To Stay Safe
Head's Up
By Gary Dean Quesenberry
Narrated by: Gary Dean Quesenberry
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes
Spotting danger before it happens is a skill that can be developed and may even save your life.
Understand the threat Build situational awareness Develop personal defensesA mother dropping her teenager off at the mall, a young man leaving home for college, a family about to head out on their first trip overseas. What do all of these people...
Read more »Bestseller #22
The Anatomy of Change
A Way to Move Through Life's Transitions Second Edition
By Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Narrated by: Kirk Magoon
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
The body’s innate capacity for feeling, intuition, and compassion can enable us to heal our physical and emotional wounds. In The Anatomy of Change, Richard Heckler draws on Aikido and Lomi Body Work to demonstrate how a set of practices can bring new awareness and choice into our daily life. Read more »
Bestseller #23
Winning Fixes Everything
How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess
By Evan Drellich
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself.
Baseball, that old romantic game, has been defaced and consumed by corporate America....
Read more »Bestseller #24
Running with Sherman
The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero
By Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Christopher McDougall
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Running with Sherman
“You will fall in love with this determined donkey and cheer for Sherman all along the way.”
Mollie, HearthFire Books and Treats
Bestseller #25
Running While Black
Finding Freedom in a Sport That Wasn't Built for Us
By Alison Mariella Désir
Narrated by: Alison Mariella Désir
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
A searing exposé on the whiteness of running, a supposedly egalitarian sport, and a call to reimagine the industry
“Runners know that running brings us to ourselves. But for Black people, the simple act of running has never been so simple. It is a declaration of the right to move through the world. If running is claiming public space, why, then,... Read more »
Bestseller #26
Forward
A Memoir
By Abby Wambach
Narrated by: Abby Wambach
Length: 5 hours 18 minutes
"Lucid and wrenching...Forward puts [Wambach's] achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor." —NPR
"Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves." —Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, New York Times Bestselling author of Lean In
“This is the best memoir I’ve read by an...
Read more »Bestseller #27
Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
By Laura Hillenbrand
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014’s Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil,... Read more »
Bestseller #28
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
By Phil Knight
Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes
In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh” (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing,... Read more »
Bestseller #29
Range
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By David Epstein
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more.
“The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes
“Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who... Read more »
Bestseller #30
WOLFPACK
How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
By Abby Wambach
Narrated by: Abby Wambach
Length: 1 hour 10 minutes
“Abby is a relatable revolutionary — with WOLFPACK, she inspires the confidence, leadership and sisterhood we all so desperately need right now.” — Amy Schumer
This program is read by the author.
Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College’s graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling author, two-time...
Bestseller #31
The Longest Race
Inside the Secret World of Abuse, Doping, and Deception on Nike's Elite Running Team
By Kara Goucher
Narrated by: Kara Goucher
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running.
Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age and was offered a Nike sponsorship deal when she graduated from college. Then in 2004, she was... Read more »
Bestseller #32
Run Like a Mother
How to Get Moving--and Not Lose Your Family, Job, or Sanity
By Dimity McDowell & Sarah Bowen Shea
Narrated by: Dimity McDowell & Sarah Bowen Shea
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
The Girlfriend’s Guide to Running.
In Run Like a Mother, authors Dimity McDowell and Sarah Bowen Shea offer both inspirational advice and practical strategies to help multitasking women make running part of their busy lives.
McDowell and Shea understand the various external and internal forces in everyday life that can unintentionally keep a... Read more »
Bestseller #33
Open
An Autobiography
By Andre Agassi
Narrated by: Erik Davies
Length: 18 hours 3 minutes
From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.
Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of thirteen, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a... Read more »
Bestseller #34
The High Sierra
A Love Story
By Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Kim Stanley Robinson
Length: 16 hours 30 minutes
A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (—Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder).
Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a... Read more »
Bestseller #35
One Life
By Megan Rapinoe & Emma Brockes
Narrated by: Megan Rapinoe
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
An instant New York Times bestseller!
“Rapinoe's 'signature pose' from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is synonymous to the feeling we got when finishing this book: heart full, arms wide and ready to take up space in this world.”—USA Today
Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women's World Cup champion, reveals for the first time... Read more »
Bestseller #36
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
By Blair Braverman
Narrated by: Blair Braverman
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
“The brilliant and engaging writing in this memoir belies the author's young age. Braverman offers a taut and honest recounting of a young woman fiercely chasing down her dream and confronting myriad dangers -- both natural and man-made -- with intelligence and grit. This white-knuckle read left me in awe of Braverman's conviction, and her lyrical rendering of the landscape of Alaska took my breath away.”
Katie McGrath, Arcadia Books
Bestseller #37
Born to Run
A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
By Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?
“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside... Read more »
Bestseller #38
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing The Uncommon
By Dr. Joe Dispenza
Narrated by: Adam Boyce
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming Supernatural marries the some of the most... Read more »
Bestseller #39
Path Lit By Lightning
By David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 23 hours 26 minutes
A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.
Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the... Read more »
Bestseller #40
Spirit Run
A 6000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
By Noé Álvarez
Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Spirit Run
“Noe Alvarez's writing has an ease to it that welcomes the reader. It draws you in to in this journey.”
Julia, The Bookloft
Bestseller #41
Permaculture for the Rest of Us
Abundant Living on Less than an Acre
By Jenni Blackmore
Narrated by: Dawn Harvey
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
Adventures on the road to real-world self-sufficiency
Many of us want to increase our self-sufficiency, but few have access to the ideal 5 sunny, gently-sloping acres of rich, loamy, well-drained soil. Jenni Blackmore presents a highly entertaining, personal account of how permaculture can be practiced in adverse conditions, allowing anyone to...
Read more »Bestseller #42
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
By Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven L. Hopp
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
“A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are.” — Boston Globe
Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestselling book describing her family's adventure as they...
Read more »Bestseller #43
In the Shadow of the Mountain
A Memoir of Courage
By Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Narrated by: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Length: 15 hours 32 minutes
In the Shadow of the Mountain
“In the Shadow of the Mountain intertwines the lives of sexual assault survivors with Vasquez-Lavado’s experience leading these survivors to summit Mount Everest. A collective story of perseverance, community, and healing.”
Clancey D'Isa, Seminary Co-op Bookstores
Bestseller #44
All In
An Autobiography
By Billie Jean King, Johnette Howard & Maryanne Vollers
Narrated by: Billie Jean King
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes
All In
“What a gift the autobiography of Billie Jean King is for all of us! I listened to Billie Jean King tell me the history of women's tennis and sports (Title IX, equal pay), social justice movements, gay rights, women's liberation, and of her life. To use one of her words — amazing!...This is an autobiography, not a memoir, so it is comprehensive and goes from childhood to the present. Billie Jean King is careful to dole out credit where credit is due. She has no axes to grind— and is mostly interested in talking about the change that still needs to happen, and her legacy. I will now forever have her voice and her laugh in my head. What a gift that is.”
Julie, Honest Dog Books
Bestseller #45
WALK
Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles per Hour
By Jonathon Stalls
Narrated by: Jonathon Stalls
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
A transformative collection of essays on the power of walking to connect with ourselves, each other, and nature itself.
In 2010, Jonathon Stalls and his blue-heeler husky mix began their 242-day walk across the United States, depending upon each other and the kindness of strangers along the way. In this collection of essays, Stalls explores... Read more »
Bestseller #46
Messi vs. Ronaldo
One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World's Game
By Jonathan Clegg & Joshua Robinson
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes
Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg offer a deeply reported account of the intertwined sagas and legacies of two of the greatest soccer players of all time—Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo—examining how their rivalry has grown from a personal competition to a multi-billion-dollar industry, paralleling the stunning...
Read more »Bestseller #47
The Sense of Wonder
By Matthew Salesses
Narrated by: Jee Young Han & Tommy Kang
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
From the author of PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear and Craft in the Real World comes a searing masterwork on the ways Asian Americans navigate the thorny worlds of sports and entertainment when everything is stacked against them.
An Asian American basketball star walks into a gym. No one recognizes him, but everyone stares... Read more »Bestseller #48
Orchid Muse
A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers
By Erica Hannickel
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022
A kaleidoscopic journey into the world of nature's most tantalizing flower, and the lives it has inspired.
The epitome of floral beauty, orchids have long fostered works of art, tales of adventure, and scientific discovery. Tenacious plant hunters have traversed continents to collect rare... Read more »
Bestseller #49
Eleven Rings
The Soul of Success
By Phil Jackson & Hugh Delehanty
Narrated by: Matt Walton
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way, from a place of deep values. Jackson was tagged as the “Zen master” half in jest by... Read more »
Bestseller #50
So Help Me Golf
Why We Love the Game
By Rick Reilly
Narrated by: Rick Reilly
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes
Beloved bestselling author and golf aficionado Rick Reilly channels his insatiable curiosity, trademark sense of humor, and vast knowledge of the game in a treasure trove of original pieces about what the game has meant to him and to others.
This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game...