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Drama in the Bahamas
- Muhammad Ali's Last Fight
- By: Dave Hannigan
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan tells the occasionally poignant, often troubling, yet always entertaining story behind Ali's last bout. Through interviews with many of those involved, he discovers exactly how and why, a few weeks short of his 40th birthday, a seriously diminished Ali stepped through the ropes one more time to get beaten up by Trevor Berbick.
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Sad book
- By Jordan Powell on 20-01-19
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Drama in the Bahamas
- Muhammad Ali's Last Fight
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-08-16
- Language: English
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By the Sword
- A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
- By: Richard Cohen
- Narrated by: Richard Cohen
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting - a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing history of the world via the sword.
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Performance ruins a great book
- By George Kaar on 20-10-24
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By the Sword
- A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
- Narrated by: Richard Cohen
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-02-20
- Language: English
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A History of the Olympics
- By: John Goodbody Barry
- Narrated by: Barry Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This unique audiobook history of the Olympics, first issued in 2008, has been updated to include the Beijing Olympics and released to coincide with the London event. Written by the prize-winning sports journalist John Goodbody, and with a fascinating personal documentary featuring one of Britain's leading Olympians, Sebastian Coe, who is now heading the 2012 Games, this is an ideal opener!
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OK. But not quite what I was looking for.
- By Mr on 13-07-16
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A History of the Olympics
- Narrated by: Barry Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-03-12
- Language: English
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Field of Dreams
- 100 Years of Wembley in 100 Matches
- By: Nige Tassell
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The 1923 FA Cup final—aka the White Horse final—was the first football match played at the British Empire Exhibition Stadium. Although best-remembered for non-playing reasons that afternoon marked the historic opening chapter of the stadium’s long and eventful history, of the stadium soon to be known simply as Wembley. Nige Tassell chooses 100 matches—from the well known to the unusual—that have shaped Wembley's legacy and tells a lively and original alternative history of the past 100 years of football, and of Britain.
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Field of Dreams
- 100 Years of Wembley in 100 Matches
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime
- Sport and Society
- By: Richard C. Crepeau
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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This wide-ranging history synthesizes scholarship and media sources to give the listener an inside view of the television contracts, labor issues, and other off-the-field forces that shaped the National Football League. Historian Richard Crepeau shows how Commissioner Pete Rozelle's steady leadership guided the league's explosive growth during the era of Monday Night Football and the Super Bowl's transformation into a mid-winter spectacle.
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Detailed history
- By Christopher Matthews on 09-10-18
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NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime
- Sport and Society
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-04-16
- Language: English
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The Real Madrid Way
- How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet
- By: Steven G. Mandis
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Real Madrid is the most successful sports team on the planet. The soccer club has more trophies than any other sports team, including 11 UEFA Champions League trophies. However, the story behind the triumph goes beyond the players and coaches. Generally unnoticed, a management team consisting mostly of outsiders took the team from near bankruptcy to the most valuable sports organization in the world. How did Real Madrid achieve such extraordinary success? Columbia Business School adjunct professor Steven G. Mandis investigates.
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The Real Madrid Way
- How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-12-17
- Language: English
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Munich 1972
- Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games
- By: David Clay Large
- Narrated by: Gregory St. John
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling audiobook provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages' tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by the German police. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources from the time, eminent historian David Clay Large explores the 1972 festival in all its ramifications.
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starts chapter 7
- By Shane canning🇮🇪 on 21-09-22
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Munich 1972
- Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games
- Narrated by: Gregory St. John
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-01-14
- Language: English
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The History of the World Cup – 2010 Edition
- By: Brian Glanville
- Narrated by: Bob Wilson
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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The World Cup is the largest sports event outside the summer Olympics: the progress of the 32 countries which qualify for the finals is watched by billions all over the globe. Since the very first World Cup in Uruguay in 1930, there have been 18 finals, held every four years (with a 12-year break over the World War II period). The World Cup in South Africa will be the 19th. Brian Glanville, the distinguished journalist and World Cup historian, has written a fascinating history of the event.
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The History of the World Cup – 2010 Edition
- Narrated by: Bob Wilson
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 20-05-10
- Language: English
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The Open Question
- Ben Hogan and Golf's Most Enduring Controversy
- By: Peter May
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1942, the United States Golf Association (USGA) cancelled its four golf tournaments for the duration of World War II. But then it did something different in only that year - it sponsored the Hale-America National Open on the same weekend as the cancelled US Open. The great Ben Hogan won that tournament and went to his grave believing he had therefore won a record five US Open titles. In The Open Question, Peter May turns his attention to this controversial, colorful Hale-America National Open of 1942.
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A great book for Golf lovers
- By Viv Morgan on 06-02-22
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The Open Question
- Ben Hogan and Golf's Most Enduring Controversy
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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Miracle at Merion
- The Inspiring Story of Ben Hogan's Amazing Comeback and Victory at the 1950 U.S. Open
- By: David Barrett
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Legendary sportswriter Red Smith characterized Ben Hogan’s comeback from a near-fatal automobile crash in February 1949 as “the most remarkable feat in the history of sports.” Now, more than 60 years later, that statement still rings true. The crowning moment of Hogan’s comeback was his astonishing victory in the 1950 U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club near Philadelphia, where his battered legs could barely carry him on the 36-hole final day.
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An enjoyable trip in time
- By Alfie B on 03-01-24
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Miracle at Merion
- The Inspiring Story of Ben Hogan's Amazing Comeback and Victory at the 1950 U.S. Open
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 29-03-13
- Language: English
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Into the Storm
- Lessons in Teamwork from the Treacherous Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race
- By: Jillian B. Murphy, Dennis N.T. Perkins
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge - often called the “Everest” of offshore ocean racing - is considered one of the toughest in the world. Unpredictable weather and seas make each race demanding, but in 1998, an unexpected “weather bomb” hit the fleet, creating 80-foot waves and 100-mile-per-hour winds. Many bigger, better-equipped boats tried to maneuver around the storm, but the crew of the AFR Midnight Rambler chose to head directly into its path.
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Thought provoking account of this race.
- By LakesClaire on 23-07-24
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Into the Storm
- Lessons in Teamwork from the Treacherous Sydney to Hobart Ocean Race
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-11-12
- Language: English
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One Long and Beautiful Summer
- A Short Elegy for Red-Ball Cricket
- By: Duncan Hamilton
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Following Neville Cardus's assertion that 'there can be no summer in this land without cricket', Hamilton plotted the games he would see in 2019 and wrote down reflectively on some of the cricket that blessed his own sight. It would be captured in the context of the coming season in case subsequent summers and the imminent arrival of the Hundred made that impossible. He would write in the belief that after this season the game might never be quite the same again.
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Beautifully written and read
- By Prothwell1985 on 08-11-22
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One Long and Beautiful Summer
- A Short Elegy for Red-Ball Cricket
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-07-20
- Language: English
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Outriders
- Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
- By: Rebecca Scofield
- Narrated by: Jenn Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western rodeo hero is often a stoic white man who embodies the toughness and independence of America’s frontier past. However, marginalized people have starred in rodeos since the very beginning. Cast out of popular western mythology and pushed to the fringes in everyday life, these cowboys and cowgirls found belonging and meaning at the rodeo, staking a claim to national inclusion.
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Ali vs. Inoki
- The Forgotten Fight That Inspired Mixed Martial Arts and Launched Sports Entertainment
- By: Josh Gross
- Narrated by: Keith Brown
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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On June 26, 1976, Muhammad Ali fought in a mixed-rules contest against iconic pro wrestling champion Antonio Inoki for the so-called "martial arts championship of the world." Broadcast from Tokyo to a potential audience of 1.4 billion in 34 countries, the spectacle foreshadowed and, in many ways, led to the rise of mixed martial arts as a major sport.
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Ali vs. Inoki
- The Forgotten Fight That Inspired Mixed Martial Arts and Launched Sports Entertainment
- Narrated by: Keith Brown
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-12-24
- Language: English
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The Story of the Giro d'Italia: A Year-by-Year History of the Tour of Italy, Volume 1: 1909-1970
- By: Bill McGann, Carol McGann
- Narrated by: Wyntner Woody
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Volume 1 of The Story of the Giro d'Italia tells of Italy's most celebrated riders: Costante Girardengo, the first campionissimo, or “Champion of Champions”; Alfredo Binda, who so dominated the Giro that one year he was paid by the organizers not to enter; Gino Bartali, who looked to become the dominating rider of his era; and Fausto Coppi, a fascinating personality and Bartali's great rival, who became not only Italy's, but the world's finest rider.
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The Story of the Giro d'Italia: A Year-by-Year History of the Tour of Italy, Volume 1: 1909-1970
- Narrated by: Wyntner Woody
- Series: The Story of the Giro d'Italia, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 03-05-13
- Language: English
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Thirty-One Nil
- On the Road with Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey
- By: James Montague
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In a tiny, decaying aluminum smelting town in southern Tajikistan, a short drive from a raging war zone, Afghanistan take on Palestine in the first Asian qualifier for 2014's World Cup in Brazil. Every player on both teams is risking something by playing: Their careers, their families, even their lives. Thirty-One Nil is the story of how footballers from all corners of the globe begin their journey chasing a place at the World Cup Finals.
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Excellent football travelogue
- By J L S one on 01-02-21
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Thirty-One Nil
- On the Road with Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-06-14
- Language: English
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The Betrayal
- The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
- By: Charles Fountain
- Narrated by: Bob Reed
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players - including Shoeless Joe Jackson - agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein. Heavily favored, Chicago lost the Series five games to three. Although rumors of a fix flew while the series was being played, they were largely disregarded by players and the public at large.
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The Betrayal
- The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball
- Narrated by: Bob Reed
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 15-02-16
- Language: English
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Seventeen and Oh
- Miami, 1972, and the NFL's Only Perfect Season
- By: Marshall Jon Fisher
- Narrated by: Tom Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The 1972 Miami Dolphins had something to prove. Losers in the previous Super Bowl, a ragtag bunch of overlooked, underappreciated, or just plain old players, they were led by Don Shula, a genius young coach obsessed with obliterating the reputation that he couldn't win the big game. And as the Dolphins headed into only their seventh season, all eyes were on Miami. For the last time, a city was hosting both national political conventions, and the backdrop to this season of redemption would be turbulent.
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Seventeen and Oh
- Miami, 1972, and the NFL's Only Perfect Season
- Narrated by: Tom Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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Sit Down and Cheer
- A History of Sport on TV
- By: Martin Kelner
- Narrated by: Martin Kelner
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In Sit Down and Cheer, Martin Kelner traces the development of this relationship from its humble origins in the 1960 Olympics, by way of the first-ever Match of the Day in 1964, through to the financial impact of Sky, right up to the high-tech gadgetry of our present-day viewing. Insightful and very funny, this is an entertaining exploration of two major national pastimes and not to be missed.
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A fantastic trip down memory lane
- By Anna K. on 07-01-23
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Sit Down and Cheer
- A History of Sport on TV
- Narrated by: Martin Kelner
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 22-10-14
- Language: English
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The Rip Curl Story
- By: Tim Baker
- Narrated by: Jesse Lawrence
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The Rip Curl Story is the remarkable tale of two young surfers who pursued an audacious dream to make a living in pursuit of the ultimate ride. The brand they built, Rip Curl, not only satisfied their own surf- and wanderlust but also inspired countless others, both fuelling and riding the wave of the global youth revolution of the late '60s. Rip Curl's mantra became 'the Search' - the chasing of new waves on distant shores - as they embraced new thrills such as skiing, snowboarding and windsurfing and aimed always to make better equipment to elevate the experience.
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The Rip Curl Story
- Narrated by: Jesse Lawrence
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 02-04-19
- Language: English
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