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by Bill Strickland; Narrated by Chuck Kourouklis
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Of the eight million dedicated cyclists in this country, just 32,044 own amateur racing licenses. There's a reason for that: Racing is not only incredibly difficult, it's downright excruciating, with the possibility for public humiliation never more than one pedal away. So when Natalie, Bill Strickland's preschool-aged daughter, asked him if he could win ten points during one racing seasonthe bicycling equivalent of taking an at-bat against Randy Johnson or going one-on-one with Lebron Jamesa sensible man would've just said no and moved on. Instead, Strickland decided to try. In the process, he discovered that he was racing toward the loving home life he cherished and, at the same time, trying to get away from something far worsehis legacy of horrific childhood abuse. Strickland's memoir is filled with lyrical insights on training and dedication, racing scenes packed with nail-biting suspense, and powerful reflections on the meaning of family. Because for Strickland, it's definitely not about the bike. Bill Strickland is the executive editor of Bicycling magazine and writes about cycling and fitness for publications including Men's Health, Men's Journal, and Parenting. He has commented about cycling on such television programs as Good Morning America and CBS's The Early Show.
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When Bill Strickland writes about cycling, he takes you on one of the most intense, most unforgettable rides of your life. Lance Armstrong
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by Andrea J. Buchanan; Narrated by Ilyana Kadushin, © 2007 by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
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For every girl with an independent spirit and a nose for trouble, here is the no-boys-allowed guide to everything from school yard games to great women in history! The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes! Audio includes: - Fourteen Games of Tag
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- Every Girl's Too
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by Janette Oke; Narrated by Marguerite Gavin
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Surely a home of their own would satisfy the longings of her heart.... Through the years, Virginia Simpson has learned that Grandma Marty's wisdom was right. When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better. The long-awaited return of Jonathan and their renewed courtship, with a wedding soon to follow, are proof of God's loving ways. But the inner strength th
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by Christy Mathewson; Narrated by Adams Morgan
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Pitching in a Pinch, originally published in 1912, is an insiders account of the world of baseball, blending anecdote, biography, instruction, and social history. It celebrates baseball as it was played in the first decade of the twentieth century by famous contemporaries like Honus Wagner and Rube Marquand, managers like John McGraw and Connie Mack, and many others. Always sensitive to psychology as well as technique, Mathewson describes the dangerous batters he faced; the peculiarities of big-league pitchers; the good and bad of coaching, umpiring, sign-stealing, base-running, and spring training; and the importance of superstition to athletes. Matty, as he was called, makes the listener feel that tense moment when a player in a pinch must use his head.
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“One of baseball's more enduring classics and earliest memoirs….The book's continuing delight and value rests in Mathewson's facility for capturing—from the inside—the game's ethos in the early 20th century, and the generous combination of anecdote and insight with which he shares it.” Amazon.com
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by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci
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Say it ain't so, Joe! Controversial new sports eBook from long-time Yankee manager
12 straight playoff appearances. Six American League pennants. Four World Series titles. This is the definitive story of a dynasty: the Yankee years... When Joe Torre took over as manager of the New York Yankees in 1996, the most storied franchise in sports had not won a World Series title in 18 years. The famously tough and mercurial owner, George Steinbrenner, had fired seventeen managers during that span... Torre's appointment was...
This is an ebook in sports ebooks, biography ebooks, yankee ebooks, baseball ebooks, non-fiction ebooks - The Yankee Years, sports ebook from Joe Torre
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by Donald Davis; Narrated by Donald Davis
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sports ebooks and Audio Books - by Donald Davis; Narrated by Donald Davis There was a time during Donald Davis's college freshman year when he wasn't really sure if he wanted to claim his hometown of Sulpher Springs, North Carolina. But a boy by the name of Stanley Easter changed his mind. This story of accepting one's roots endears anyone who has ever thought twice about admitting where they came from. And Davis, in his sly narration, acknowledges that a whole lifet
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by Geoff Colvin; Narrated by David Drummond
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Audio Books - Business, Sports and Inspirational - From Acclaimed Journalist Geoff ColvinOne of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called "What It Takes to Be Great." Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field - from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett and Jack Welch - are not determined by their inborn talents... eBook in eBooks Business
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by Carl Hiaasen; Narrated by Michael Welch
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You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup. Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor -- which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can't prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement
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"Compulsively readable with a cleverly conceived resolution. . . . Fans of spy stories, action, environmental intrigue, and, well, Hiaasen, will cheer for this one." - The Bulletin
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by Curt Sampson; Narrated by Dennis McKee
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Was there ever a year in golf like 1960? It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the game collided. Television, still a new medium, provided a fresh window to this fascinating show and enabled this "rich man's sport" to win over millions of new fans. Here was Arnold Palmer, the working man's hero, "sweating, chain-smoking, shirt-tail flying," winning, it seemed, every tournament with a last-second charge; grim Ben Hogan, Arnie's opposite, the greatest player of the '50s, a perfectionist battling the twin demons of age and nerves; and, making his debut in the big time, a chunky, crewcut college kid who seemed to have the makings of a championtwenty-year-old Jack Nicklaus. And, of course, the rest: Charlie Sifford, Sam Snead, Ken Venturi, Juan Rodriguez, Doug Sanders, Don Cherry, Gary Player, Moe Norman, and many other colorful characters that summer who chased around a little white balland a dream. Would Palmer win the mythical Grand Slam of golf? Could Hogan win one more major tournament? Was Nicklaus the real thing? In The Eternal Summer, former touring pro Curt Sampson provides the answers to these questions and much more in hypnotically readable prose. But this is more than an intimate portrait of these men and their exciting times; it is an entertaining and brilliantly detailed exploration of professional golf in America.
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"If you don't appreciate the summer of 1960, don't call yourself a golfer. The Eternal Summer is what professional golf used to be and should be—colorful, exciting, and memorable." - Tom Stine, Golfweek
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by Don Yaeger; With Mike Pressler
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""Mike Pressler walked into the bottom floor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted forward. It was 4:35 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The program's darkest hour had arrived in an unexpected and explosive announcement. Pressler, a three-time ACC Coach of the Year, informed his team that its season was canceled and he had ""resigned,"" effective immediately. While his words reverberated off the walls, hysteria erupted. Players cried, confused over a course of events that had spun wildly out of control. What began as an off-campus team party with two hired strippers had accelerated into a rape investigation -- one that exposed prosecutorial misconduct, shoddy police work, an administration's rush to judgment, and the media's disregard for the facts -- dividing both a prestigious university and the city of Durham. Wiping away tears, Pressler demonstrated the steely resolve that helped him win more than two hundred games. For the next thirty minutes, Pressler put his personal situation aside and encouraged his players to stick together. He also made a bold promise: ""One day, we will get a chance to tell the world the truth. One day."" This is that day. Pressler, who has not done an interview since the saga began, has handed his private diary from those three weeks to New York Times bestselling author Don Yaeger, exposing vivid details, including the day Pressler was fired, when the coach asked Athletic Director Joe Alleva why the school ""wasn't willing to wait for the truth"" to come out. ""It's not about the truth anymore,"" Alleva said to the coach in a signature moment that said it all. In addition to Pressler, Yaeger interviewed more than seventyfive key figures intimately involved in the case. The result is a tale that defies logic. ""It is tough to be one of fifty people who believed a story when fifty million people believed something else,"" Pressler said. ""This wasn't about the truth to many of the others involved. My story is all about the truth.""
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by Stefan Fatsis; Narrated by Stefan Fatsis
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In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis infiltrated the insular world of competitive Scrabble players, ultimately achieving expert status (comparable to a grandmaster ranking in chess). Now he infiltrates a strikingly different subculture - pro football. After more than a year spent working out with a strength coach and polishing his craft with a gurulike kicking coach, Fatsis molded his fortyish body into one that could stand up - barely - to the rigors of NFL training. And over three months in 2006, he became a Denver Bronco. He trained with the team and lived with the players. He was given a locker and uniforms emblazoned with the number 9. He was expected to perform all the drills and regimens required of other kickers. He ws unlike his teammates in some ways - most notably, his livelihood was not on the line as theirs was. But he became remarkably like them in many ways: he risked crippling injury just as they did, endured the hazing that befalls all rookies, daily gorged on 4,000 calories, and slogged through two-a-day practices in blistering heat. Not since George Plimpton's stint as a Detroit Lion more than forty years ago has a writer tunneled so deeply into the NFL. At first, the players tolerated Fatsis or treated him like a mascot, but over time they began to think of him as one of them. And he began to think like one of them. Like the other Broncos - like all elite athletes - he learned to perfect a motion through thousands of repetitions, to play through pain, to silence the crowd's roar, and to banish self-doubt. While Fatsis honed his mind and drove his body past exhaustion, he communed with every classic athletic type - the afable alpha male, the overpaid brat, the youthful phenom, the savvy veteran - and a welter of bracingly atypical players as well: a fullback who invokes Aristotle, a quarterback who embraces yoga, and a tight end who takes creative writing classes in the off-season. Fatsis also witnessed the hidden machinery of a top-flight football franchise, from the God-is-in-the-details strategizing of legendary coach Mike Shanahan to the icy calculation with which the front office makes or breaks careers. With wry candor and hard-won empathy, A Few Seconds of Panic unveils the mind of the modern pro athlete and the workings of a storied sports franchise as no book ever has before.
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by John Feinstein; Narrated by John Feinstein
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Edgar Award-winner, John Feinstein, brings listeners another fast-paced, action-packed sports mysterythis one set behind the scenes at the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament. Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are together again when both score press passes to cover the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament. The behind-the-scenes action in the world of professional tennis is overwhelming, but it tu
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"Feinstein expertly combines tennis action, life in the Big Apple, media coverage, and a realistic plot to explore the fierce competition of tennis." Chicago Sun-Times
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by John Feinstein; Narrated by John Feinstein
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Steven Thomas is one of two lucky winners of the U.S. Basketball Writers Associations contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. Its a basketball junkies dream come true! But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely compe
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" Last Shot is a brisk novel set in the madness of the NCAA's Final Four. Exceptionally knowledgeable about the college basketball world, Feinstein has a fine time lampooning broadcaster Dick Vitale and the bureaucrats who populate the NCAA itself. The blackmailing plot that unfolds over the course of Final Four weekend threatens a student-athlete who isn't a student, implicates an ethics professor with no ethics, and otherwise introduces to young readers the sleaze beneath the glitter of college basketball's biggest show. Remarkably, Feinstein pokes holes in the illusions without diminishing the excitement of the games themselves as seen through the eyes of two eighth-grade reporters. He writes as if he's having a fine time at the keyboard, and the result will entertain not only young readers, but the oldsters looking over their shoulders as well." Boston Globe
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by Michael Lewis; Narrated by Michael Lewis
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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 tok look would be the gront offices of major leauge teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?
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by Fred Waitzkin; Narrated by Lloyd James
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Fred Waitzkin was smitten by chess during the historic Fischer-Spassky championship in 1972. When Fischer disappeared from public view, Waitzkins interest waneduntil his own son Josh emerged as a chess prodigy. Searching for Bobby Fischer is the story of Fred Waitzkin and his son, from the moment six-year-old Josh first sits down at a chessboard until he competes for the national championship. Drawn into the insular, international network of chess, they must also navigate the difficult waters of their own relationship. All the while, Waitzkin searches for the elusive Bobby Fischer, whose myth still dominates the chess world and profoundly affects Waitzkins dreams for his son.
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“Superb….narrator Lloyd James…so fully inhabits the first-person narrative that he turns the book into a disturbing and fascinating character study.” AudioFile
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by BBC Audiobooks, John Inverdale, ©BBC Audiobooks Ltd 2008
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A hilarious collection of BBC broadcasting blunders presented by John Inverdale. There are no gaffes like sporting gaffes. In the excitement of the moment, and live on air, commentators and sports personalities can say the most amazing and silliest things. This complication includes slip-of-the-tongue and scrambling of words which produce gales of laughter from the commentary box - and those listening in.
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by Stuart Woods; Narrated by Michael Kramer
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Ed Eagle returns in the new heart-stopping novel by the New York Times-bestselling author.
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by Leigh Montville; Narrated by Stephen Hoye
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He was a 1930s golf legend and Hollywood trickster who adamantly refused to be photographed. He never played professionally, yet sports-writing legend Grantland Rice still heralded him as "the greatest golfer in the world." Then, in 1937, the secrets of John Montagues past were exposedleading to a sensational trial that captivated the nation. John Montague was a boisterous enigma. He had a bagful of golf tricks, on and off the course. He could chip a ball across a room into a highball glass, and knock a bird off a wire from 170 yardsand when the big man arrived in Hollywood in the early 1930s, he quickly became a celebrity among celebrities. He lived for a time with Oliver Hardy (whom he could lift, one-handed, onto the country club bar) and played golf with everyone from Howard Hughes and W. C. Fields to Babe Ruth and his close friend Bing Crosby, whom he famously beat while playing only with a rake, a shovel, and a bat. Yet strangely Montague never entered a professional tournament, and in a town that thrived on publicity, he never allowed his image to be captured on film. The reasons became clear when a Time magazine photographer snapped his picture with a telephoto lens and police in upstate New York quickly recognized Montague as a fugitive wanted for armed robbery. As Montague was indicted in the tiny upstate town of Jay, New York, hordes of national media descended and turned a star-studded legal carnival into the most talked about trial of its day the trial of "the Mysterious Montague." From the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, to John Montagues extraordinary skill and triumphs on the golf course, to the shady world of Adirondack rumrunners and bootleggers, three-time New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville captures a man and an era with extraordinary color, verve, and energy. The Mysterious Montague is Leigh Montvilles (three-time New York Times bestselling author) most entertaining achievement to date.
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"Exceptional. Montville on Ted Williams is can't-miss, one of America's best sportswriters weighing in on one of the last century's most intriguing figures. A great read." Chicago Tribune
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by Joe Torre; Narrated by Joe Torre
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sports ebooks and Audio Books - by Joe Torre; Narrated by Joe Torre "Maybe the good Lord was just waiting for me to put on the pinstripes." When Joe Torre was fired as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1995, he thought his career in baseball was over. After more than three decades and 4,200 games as a player and manager, one thing had always eluded him--winning a World Series. He had all but given up his dream when the New York Yankees made him an offer
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture; Directed by Sean Penn, starring Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, William Hurt, and Marcia Gay Harden. In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of hi
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"Terrifying...Eloquent...A heart-rending drama of human yearning." New York Times
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sports ebooks and Audio Books - by Jon Krakauer; Narrated by Scott Brick In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, John Krakauer shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by a pair of brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they were commanded to kill by God. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this "divinely inspired" crime, Kra
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"Fantastic. . . . Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song." San Francisco Chronicle
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by Peter Zheutlin; Narrated by Barrett Whitener
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Audio Books - The Incredible Story of the First Female to Bike Around the WorldUntil 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle. Annie Kopchovsky changed all of that. Annie was a Jewish immigrant and working mother of three living in a Boston tenement with her husband, a peddler. This was as close to the American dream as she was likely to get---until she became part of what one newspaper called "one of the most novel wagers ever made": a high-stakes bet between two wealthy merchants that a woman could not ride around the world on a bicycle, as Thomas Stevens had a few years before.
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One of the most successful coaches in the history of basketball offers his personal account of a season like no other-the extraordinary ride of the 2003-2004 Los Angeles Lakers.
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The Super Bowl. America's biggest sports spectacle. More than ninety-five million fans will be watching.But Steve Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson know that what they'll be watching is a lie. They know that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams have failed their doping tests and shouldn't be allowed to play. They know that the Dreams' owner is trying to cover up the test results unt
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"Sure to be a hit with sports fans." Kirkus Reviews
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by Mike Vaccaro; Narrated by Scott Brick
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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 sports columnist Mike Vaccaro chronicles the history of the greatest rivalry in sports, and the two stunning American League Championship Series that define a century of baseball.October 17, 2003: A night no Yankees or Red Sox fan will ever forget. At 12:15 am, bottom of the eleventh inning of game seven of the ALCS, New York third-baseman Aaron Boone launches a ball over Yankee Stadium's left-field fence. The Yankees win their 39th pennant and send the perennially vexed Boston Red Sox home.. again.. suffering another devastating loss to their longtime nemesis.October 20, 2004: A year later, an eerie reprise but this time things are different. After losing three straight to the Yankees, Boston has charged back to win the next three, forcing a decisive game seven. From the start of the game Boston is in control, and by winning this game they march toward their first World Series victory since 1918. These two explosive years define an extraordinary, epic rivalry from Mariano Rivera and Roger Clemens to Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling, Derek Jeter and Aaron Boone to David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, from nearly a century of Yankee domination to the undisputed breaking of "The Curse." With the razor-sharp instincts that have made him a top sports journalist, Mike Vaccaro delves into the history of the rollicking rivalry: a vicious collision in 1903 (between the New York Highlanders and Boston Pilgrims) that draws first blood; the era of Babe Ruth and his legendary trade from the Red Sox to the Yankees, ushering in the notorious Curse; the golden age of DiMaggio and Williams; the unstoppable power of Mantle and Maris; the heart and soul of Fisk and Yazstremski versus Pinella and Munson; and the modern era of dueling owners, skyrocketing payrolls, and a renewed rivalry that attracts sell-out crowds even to Yankees-Red Sox spring training games.EMPERORS AND IDIOTS is as lively, fascinating, and raucous as the teams themselves a must-have volume for any Yankees or Red Sox fan.
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"Mike Vaccaro dissects the always intense relationship between the Yankees and the Red Sox the way a scholarly grandfather could analyze the two sides of a family tree: with deep, detailed stories about the two teams and two cities that are nice or nasty and never dull. Every fan knows this rivalry cannot be rivaled in sports. But in a style that feels like a history lesson being taught from the bleachers, Vaccaro reminds us again and again why that is so true." Jack Curry, The New York Times national baseball columnist
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by W. Timothy Gallwey; Narrated by Dan Woren
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THE INNER GAME OF TENNIS is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning. This classic bestseller can change the way the game of tennis is played.
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Street Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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by Carl Hiaasen; Narrated by Lee Adams
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sports ebooks and Audio Books - by Carl Hiaasen; Narrated by Lee Adams A fully loaded, riotous and righteous, non-stop hilarious novel from Carl Hiaasen. Honey Santana is embarking on a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime telemarketers. Shes taking gullible, rude, telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie, into the Ten Thousand Island Wildlife Refuge off the coast of southeast Florida fo
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Street Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2006
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"Hiaasen [is] king of the screwball comedies . . . Nobody escapes unscathed in this web of hilarious stories that intertwine and bisect each other like a nest of vipers . . . The charismatic, animated characters deliver lines that will bring tears of laughter to even the most jaundiced readers . . . This is top-notch storytelling by a truly original comic novelist." Clayton Moore, Rocky Mountain News
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by The Funny Cide Team, Sally Jenkins; Narrated by Jamey Sheridan
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"In 2003, he became ""the people's horse,"" the unheralded New York-bred gelding who-in a time of war and economic jitters-inspired a nation by knocking off the champions and their multimillionaire owners and sweeping to the brink of the Triple Crown. Trained by a journeyman who had been knocking around racing for more than thirty years, ridden by a hard-luck jockey, and owned by a tiny stable founded by a band of high school buddies from Sackets Harbor, NY (pop: 1,386), who tossed in a few thousand dollars each and decided to follow their dream, Funny Cide became a blue-collar hero with a bit, his story crammed with colorful characters-only one of which happened to be a horse. Written with Sally Jenkins, coauthor of Lance Armstrong's number-one bestseller It's Not About the Bike, Funny Cide tells the whole story-the parts we know and the parts we never suspected-as it follows the group's emotional ups and downs against overwhelming odds, illness, and even scandal, to capture the imagination of millions. It is a book for the underdog in all of us-a new American classic."
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by Carl Hiaasen; Narrated by Stephen Hoye
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sports ebooks and Audio Books - by Carl Hiaasen; Narrated by Stephen Hoye When Chaz Perrone's wife discovers that he is running a scam - posing as a marine biologist to doctor water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the Everglades - he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner. Unfortunately for Chaz, Joey survives clutching a bale of Jamaican pot. Rescued from the Atlantic by a former police officer, Mick Stranahan,
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Street Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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"Stephen Hoye enhances the hilarity and charm of the story, especially Hiaasen's eye for offbeat detailsHoye's voice has just the right amount of irreverence combined with impeccable, unrushed pacing. Vastly entertaining." --AudioFile
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by A. J. Liebling; Narrated by Grover Gardner
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A. J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" bring vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday: Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling never fails to find the human story behind the fight, and he evokes the atmosphere in the arena as distinctly as he does the goings-on in the ring, a combination that prompted Sports Illustrated to name The Sweet Science the best American sports book of all time.
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"Nobody wrote about boxing with more grace and enthusiasm than Joe Liebling." New York Times
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by Michael Lewis; Narrated by Stephen Hoye
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Moneyball and Liars Poker comes the story of a young mans rise to football stardom. The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the NFL. Plucked from the mean streets by a wealthy family, he took up football and school, and turned out to possess the priceless combination of size, speed, and agility needed to guard the quarterbacks greatest vulnerability: his blind side.
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by Rick Reilly; Narrated by Grover Gardner
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The funniest and most popular sportswriter in America abandons his desk at Sports Illustrated to caddy for some of the worlds most famous golfersand some celebrity dufferswith hilarious results. Who knows golfers best? Whos with them every minute of every round, hears their muttering, knows whether they cheat? Their caddies, of course. So sportswriter Rick Reilly figured that he could learn a lot about the players and their games by caddying, even though he had absolutely no idea how to do it. Amazingly, some of the best golfers in the worldincluding Jack Nicklaus, David Duval, Tom Lehman, John Daly, Casey Martin, and Jill McGillagreed to let Reilly carry their bags at actual PGA and LPGA Tour events. Reilly also caddied at the Masters, persuaded Deepak Chopra and Donald Trump to use him as a caddy, accompanied high-rolling golf hustlers in Las Vegas around the course, and carried the bag for a blind golfer. Between his hilarious descriptions of his own ineptitude as a caddy and his insight into what makes the greats of golf so great, Reillys wicked wit and an experts eye provide readers with the next best thing to a great round of golf.
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"Reilly could write about lawn bowling and make it funny, informative, and entertaining. You never know what the next page is going to bring." Los Angeles Times
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by Cliff Morgan, Barry John, J. P. R. Williams
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No game generates more passion, or stirs the emotions, like Rugby Union. No game enjoys itself more when the final whistle blows. And none has produced quite such a line of good talkers, on or off the subject. Here, from the BBCs unique Sound Archives, are memories of great teams, matches and tries, the wit and wisdom of some of the legendary characters to have graced the game and a few of its celebrated followers. Contributors include: Tony OReilly, Barry John, Chris Rea, Bill McLaren, Bill Beaumont, Gareth Edwards, Willie John McBride, Gerald Davies, Spike Milligan, Richard Harris, Richard Burton and many others.
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Street Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
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by Jon Krakauer; Introduction by Jon Krakauer
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Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Mount Everest--told by acclaimed journalist, and bestselling author of Into the Wild and Eiger Dreams, Jon Krakauer. On assignment for Outside magazine, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas to report on the growing commercialization of the planet's highest mountain. Even though one climber in four dies attempting to reach the summit of Everest, business is booming as guides take the rich and the adventurous up the mountain for a fee of $65,000. Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people--including himself--to throw caution to the wind and willingly subject themselves to so much danger, hardship, and expense.
"Into Thin Air ranks among the great adventure books of all time . . . a book of rare eloquence and power that could remain relevant for centuries." Galen Rowell, The Wall Street Journal
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by Carl Hiaasen; Narrated by Carl Hiaasen
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sports ebooks and Audio Books - by Carl Hiaasen; Narrated by Carl Hiaasen Ever wonder how to retrieve a sunken golf cart from a snake-infested lake? Or which club in your bag is best suited for combat against a horde of rats? If these and other sporting questions are gnawing at you, THE DOWNHILL LIE, Carl Hiaasens hilarious confessional about returning to the fairways after a thirty-two-year absence, is definitely the book for you. Originally drawn to the game by h
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Street Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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"This book is a return by Hiaasen to his best with the sport of golf providing the venue for his unique wit and biting humor. . . . Throughout, he spares no punches on himself. You feel his pain and frustration as he takes three steps forward and two back (usually in the rough). You'll have many laugh-out-loud moments, either at his expense or the expense of those infected by his bad mojo. His fate is always believable and you never tire of his desire to improve (even if aided by questionable pharmaceuticals). You can even learn from his experiences. I don't know if this book can help your stroke, but after reading about his golf cart fiasco, I've been much more diligent to set the emergency brake on my car. If you've never read Carl Hiaasen, this is a great place to start in that it requires no prerequisites, not even a working knowledge of golf. If you have read him before, this is a wonderful return to the magic (albeit voodoo) that is Carl Hiaasen." Scott Mayo, Decatur Daily
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