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The League
- How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
- By: John Eisenberg
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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The “deeply researched, surprise-on-every-page, and altogether marvelous” (Weekly Standard) tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus...
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Thoroughly fascinating
- By Mr Paul Michael Hopkins on 28-07-23
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The League
- How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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Hardcore History
- The Extremely Unauthorized Story of the ECW
- By: Scott E. Williams
- Narrated by: Karl Miller
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance166
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ECW was one extreme contradiction piled on top of another. It was an incredibly influential company in the world of professional wrestling during the 1990s, yet it was never profitable. It portrayed itself as the ultimate in anti-authority rebellion, but its leadership was, at various points, working covertly with the two wrestling giants, the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. Most of all, it blurred the line between real life and the fantasy world of professional wrestling like no other company before it.
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spot on !
- By jam on 20-03-17
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Hardcore History
- The Extremely Unauthorized Story of the ECW
- Narrated by: Karl Miller
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 23-02-13
- Language: English
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Test Cricket
- A History (SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025)
- By: Tim Wigmore
- Narrated by: Richard Atlee
- Length: 22 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED 2025 THE CRICKET SOCIETY/MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED 2026 'Wonderfully wide-focused, unfailingly readable and laced with passages of insightful analysis, Tim Wigmore's history of test cricket is a true tour de force.' David...
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A wonderful tale of the game through great teams and players
- By Amazon Customer on 28-06-25
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Test Cricket
- A History (SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025)
- Narrated by: Richard Atlee
- Length: 22 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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The Age of Football
- The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century
- By: David Goldblatt
- Narrated by: David Goldblatt
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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'Magnificent . . . Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians and brings to this account his forensic and telling eye for detail' - Mail on Sunday A Sunday Times Best Sports Book of the Year The epic exploration of society, politics, and economics in the twenty-first century through the prism...
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Very disappointing - out of date and narrowly focused viewpoints
- By Anonymous on 21-11-19
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The Age of Football
- The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century
- Narrated by: David Goldblatt
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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The Year
- Reawakening the Legend of Cycling's Hardest Endurance Record
- By: Dave Barter
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1939 British cyclist Tommy Godwin cycled 75,065 miles in a single year. Think about that for a second: it’s an average of over 200 miles each day. And it’s a mark that still stands after almost 80 years. In The Year, Dave Barter resurrects the legend of the year record - a challenge nearly as old as bicycles themselves - and the cyclists who pushed themselves to establish and break it. Barter uncovers the stories behind these riders who would routinely cycle over a hundred miles a day in the race to set new records. Americans such as John H.
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Record-breaking Edurance Cyclists
- By Kate on 18-11-19
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The Year
- Reawakening the Legend of Cycling's Hardest Endurance Record
- Narrated by: Saethon Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 12-04-19
- Language: English
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The Power and the Glory
- A New History of the World Cup
- By: Jonathan Wilson
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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'A master at telling football's greatest ever stories... Breathtaking. Wilson's eye for detail and his elegant writing brings the World Cup to life like no other book on the topic I have ever read' ELIS JAMES 'Epic in scope, awesomely rich in detail, and compulsively entertaining' TOM HOLLAND...
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Augments Glanville’s earlier work
- By Mick on 14-10-25
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The Power and the Glory
- A New History of the World Cup
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Martial Arts
- East Asian Fighting Styles, from Kung Fu to Ninjutsu
- By: Jonathan Clements
- Narrated by: Jonathan Clements
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance14
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Folk tales of the Shaolin Temple depict warrior monks with superhuman abilities. Today, dozens of East Asian fighting styles trace their roots back to the Buddhist brawlers of Shaolin, although any quest for the true story soon wanders into a labyrinth of forgeries, secret texts and modern retellings. This new study approaches the martial arts from their origins in military exercises and callisthenics. It examines a rich folklore from old wuxia tales of crime-fighting heroes to modern kung fu movies.
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Comprehensive history
- By Salimide on 18-02-22
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A Brief History of the Martial Arts
- East Asian Fighting Styles, from Kung Fu to Ninjutsu
- Narrated by: Jonathan Clements
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 21-10-21
- Language: English
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Gazza in Italy
- By: Daniel Storey
- Narrated by: James Richardson
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall183
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Performance161
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A brilliant, funny and insightful analysis of Paul Gascoigne’s crazy up and downs during his three years at Lazio – a period which shows his entire career in microcosm. 4th July, 1990. Turin, Italy England are on the brink of reaching their first World Cup final in 24 years...
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Short but enjoyable
- By David Campbell on 11-06-18
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Gazza in Italy
- Narrated by: James Richardson
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-06-18
- Language: English
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Answered Prayers
- England and the 1966 World Cup
- By: Duncan Hamilton
- Narrated by: Jonathan Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall30
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Answered Prayers is a definitive history of the most famous event in British sporting, the triumph of the 1966 England world cup football team and the disastrous effect that victory had on the game.
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A fantastic insight into England’s 1966 World Cup win
- By Garry Smith on 26-01-24
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Answered Prayers
- England and the 1966 World Cup
- Narrated by: Jonathan Firth
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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Golf Is Hard
- By: Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston
- Narrated by: Ethan Reid, Jess Nesling
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance41
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One of golf’s most popular and funny personalities reveals the ups and downs of a life playing the world’s most infuriating sport. ‘Even professional golfers hit bad shots. I guess that’s why it holds people like you and I in its grip. Because no matter how bad a day you’ve had out...
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This book is a third longer than it would be if the unnecessary swear words were removed.
- By Nigel James on 09-04-26
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Golf Is Hard
- Narrated by: Ethan Reid, Jess Nesling
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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Tales of Titletown
- How Boston Became America's Sports Capital
- By: Ron Borges, Bob Ryan, Tom E. Curran, and others
- Narrated by: Chris Ciulla, Ron Borges, Bob Ryan, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Boston rightly considers itself the premier sports town in America, with the most championship banners and whose teams have been responsible for the most dramatic and dynamic moments in sports history. “Tales of Titletown” is a collection of essays from some of the region’s finest sportswriters that prove this point.
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Tales of Titletown
- How Boston Became America's Sports Capital
- Narrated by: Chris Ciulla, Ron Borges, Bob Ryan, Dale Arnold, Sean McAdam, Chris Price, John Karalis, Bill Burt, John Tomase
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 25-04-26
- Language: English
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Miedo en la cara del rival
- Por qué el Real Madrid es el club más admirado y temido
- By: José Luis Sánchez
- Narrated by: Voz Virtual
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Este relato personal, vibrante, con el sentimiento blanco a flor de piel, habla de experiencias inolvidables, como sus viajes junto a Figo, Raúl, Zidane o Beckham, sus visitas con los madridistas a los campos más importantes de Europa y, muy especialmente, sus siete finales de Champions vividas y ganadas. Entre esos títulos, la Decimocuarta es la que reúne todas las razones por las que el Real Madrid es el Rey de Europa: agonía, sufrimiento, rebeldía, resiliencia, un espíritu indomable para lograr las más inauditas remontadas.
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Miedo en la cara del rival
- Por qué el Real Madrid es el club más admirado y temido
- Narrated by: Voz Virtual
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 15-04-26
- Language: Spanish
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Sports in America
- By: James A. Michener
- Narrated by: Larry McKeever
- Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published in 1976, James A. Michener’s explosive, spectacular Sports in America is a prescient examination of the crisis in American sports that is still unfolding to this day. Pro basketball players are banned for narcotics use, while a Major League pitcher is arrested for...
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Sports in America
- Narrated by: Larry McKeever
- Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 08-09-15
- Language: English
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Cinderella Man
- James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History
- By: Jeremy Schaap
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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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 the Great Crash. With one good hand, Braddock was forced to labor on the docks of Hoboken. Only his...
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Best Boxing Book On Audible
- By Kindle Customer on 04-10-22
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Cinderella Man
- James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 26-04-05
- Language: English
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Everest 1922
- By: Mick Conefrey
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance59
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Though it remains by far the world's most famous mountain, in recent years, Everest's reputation has changed radically, with long queues of climbers on the Lhotse Face, lurid tales of frozen corpses and piles of high altitude trash. It wasn't always like this though. Once Everest was remote and inaccessible, a mysterious place, where only the bravest and most heroic dared to tread. The first attempt on Everest in 1922 by George Leigh Mallory and a British team is an extraordinary story full of controversy, drama and incident, populated by a set of larger-than-life characters.
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Brilliantly written story of a forgotten expedition - highly recommended
- By Mr N Marmont on 13-06-22
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Everest 1922
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-04-22
- Language: English
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The Games
- A Global History of the Olympics
- By: David Goldblatt
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 22 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched and followed on every continent and in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated...
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The symbolisms of the Olympics, beyond just sports
- By IYER on 09-03-18
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Angels With Dirty Faces
- The Footballing History of Argentina
- By: Jonathan Wilson
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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'ABSORBING' Guardian 'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman 'EPIC' Evening Standard 'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times 'MAGISTERIAL' Irish Examiner Fully revised and updated, the definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the Pyramid Alfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona...
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Interesting history
- By mcsmall on 07-03-25
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Angels With Dirty Faces
- The Footballing History of Argentina
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-12-22
- Language: English
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NFL Century
- The One-Hundred-Year Rise of America's Greatest Sports League
- By: Joe Horrigan
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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From the former executive director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame comes a sweeping and lively history of the National Football League, timed to coincide with the NFL’s 100th anniversary season. “I can think of no one better qualified—or more enthusiastic—to chronicle the National...
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Thorough and thoroughly interesting
- By Kw on 01-07-20
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NFL Century
- The One-Hundred-Year Rise of America's Greatest Sports League
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 27-08-19
- Language: English
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The Greatest Game Ever Played
- Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf
- By: Mark Frost
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance67
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Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon came from different worlds and different generations, but their passion for golf set them on parallel paths that would collide in the greatest match their sport had ever known.
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Brilliant!
- By Mark B on 11-08-25
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The Greatest Game Ever Played
- Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-10-15
- Language: English
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Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
- The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder
- By: Kenny Moore
- Narrated by: Paul Cirzan
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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No man has affected more runners in more ways than Bill Bowerman. During his 24-year tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon, he won four national team titles and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. He also ignited the jogging boom, invented the waffle-sole running shoe that helped establish Nike, and coached the US track and field team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
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Insight
- By Jimmy on 26-10-21
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Bowerman and the Men of Oregon
- The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder
- Narrated by: Paul Cirzan
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 25-04-14
- Language: English
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