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- How Much Do You Know About Sport's Biggest Competition?
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
The athletes competing in the 1960 Rome Olympics included some of the most honored in Olympic history: decathlete Rafer Johnson, sprinter Wilma Rudolph, Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila, and Louisville boxer Cassius Clay, who at 18 seized the world stage for the first time, four years before he became Muhammad Ali.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Book
- De Jay en 07-30-08
De: David Maraniss
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The "Down Goes Brown" History of the NHL
- The World's Most Beautiful Sport, the World's Most Ridiculous League
- De: Sean McIndoe
- Narrado por: Sean McIndoe
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 219
Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey's favorite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game's most memorable moments - especially if they're memorable for the wrong reasons - in this warts-and-all history of the NHL.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun, fascinating education in hockey history
- De D. Trull en 03-27-19
De: Sean McIndoe
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Two Hours
- The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon
- De: Ed Caesar
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Two hours to cover 26 miles and 385 yards. Its running's Everest, a feat once seen as impossible for the human body. Now we can glimpse the mountaintop. The sub-two-hour marathon requires an exceptional feat of speed, mental strength, and endurance. The pioneer will have to endure more, live braver, plan better, and be luckier than any who has run before. Ed Caesar takes us into the world of elite runners: the greatest marathoners on Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I liked it!
- De Amazon Customer en 05-07-16
De: Ed Caesar
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Inverting the Pyramid
- De: Jonathan Wilson
- Narrado por: Damian Lynch
- Duración: 18 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 187
Inverting the Pyramid is a pioneering soccer book that chronicles the evolution of soccer tactics and the lives of the itinerant coaching geniuses who have spread their distinctive styles across the globe. Through Jonathan Wilson's brilliant historical detective work, we learn how the South Americans shrugged off the British colonial order to add their own finesse to the game; how the Europeans harnessed individual technique and built it into a team structure; how the game once featured five forwards up front, while now a lone striker is not uncommon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mind Changing
- De Michael Williams en 01-04-19
De: Jonathan Wilson
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Barca
- The Making of the Greatest Team in the World
- De: Graham Hunter
- Narrado por: Graham Hunter
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
Barcelona is the greatest football team in the world, the greatest for a generation, and possibly the greatest of all time. This is the untold inside story of how the best and most loved football team in the world came to redefine how the game is played. We start with the 2011 Champions League final at Wembley, the game that ended the debate about whether Barcelona was the greatest team in the world and began a new one: are they the best ever?
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5 out of 5 stars
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In-depth analysis of the greatest team ever
- De Michalis Petrou en 01-09-18
De: Graham Hunter
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The League
- How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
- De: John Eisenberg
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 259
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 259
The National Football League's current dominance has obscured how professional football got its start. In The League, John Eisenberg reveals that Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell took an immense risk by investing in the professional game. At that time, the sport barely registered on the national scene. The five owners succeeded only because at critical junctures in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, each sacrificed the short-term success of his team for the longer-term good of the League.
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5 out of 5 stars
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what a great book. loved it completely.
- De Daniel Mosca en 11-08-18
De: John Eisenberg
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Triumph
- The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
- De: Jeremy Schaap
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers looming, an African-American son of sharecroppers set three world records and won an unprecedented four gold medals, single-handedly crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics Games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports. But it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man.
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4 out of 5 stars
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race headwinds
- De Andy en 04-26-07
De: Jeremy Schaap
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King of the Court
- Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution
- De: Aram Goudsouzian
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 17 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Bill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first Black superstar. From the moment he stepped onto the court of the Boston Garden in 1956, Russell began to transform the sport in a fundamental way, making him, more than any of his contemporaries, the Jackie Robinson of basketball. In King of the Court, Aram Goudsouzian provides a vivid and engrossing chronicle of the life and career of this brilliant champion and courageous racial pioneer. Russell's leaping, wide-ranging defense altered the game's texture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Portrait of a Basketball Revolutionary
- De Susie en 01-28-13
De: Aram Goudsouzian
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The End of the Perfect 10
- The Making and Breaking of Gymnastics' Top Score from Nadia to Now
- De: Dvora Meyers
- Narrado por: Elise Arsenault
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
It was the team finals of women's gymnastics in the 2012 Olympics, and McKayla Maroney was on top of her game. The 16-year-old US gymnast was performing arguably the best vault of all time, launching herself unimaginably high into the air and sticking a flawless landing. When her score came, many were baffled: 16.233. Three-tenths of a point stood between her and a perfect score. If that vault wasn't perfection, what was?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Book's great--reader's performance is TERRIBLE
- De AB en 12-14-18
De: Dvora Meyers
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Got Your Number
- The Greatest Sports Legends and the Numbers They Own
- De: Mike Greenberg, Paul Hembekides
- Narrado por: Mike Greenberg
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 42
ESPN personality ( Get Up and #Greeny) and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg partners with mega-producer Hembo to settle once and for all which legends flat-out own which numbers. In short essays certain to provoke debate between and amongst all generations, Greeny uses his lifetime of sports knowledge to spin yarns of the legends among the legends and tell you why some have claimed their spot in the top 100 of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Greeny kills it. Top-notch
- De JW en 06-10-24
De: Mike Greenberg, y otros
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Forty Million Dollar Slaves
- The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
- De: William C. Rhoden
- Narrado por: William C. Rhoden
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 363
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 308
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says former New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, Black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built. Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of Black athletes in the United States.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Book and Narrator Review
- De Leonor en 12-26-17
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Death of the Territories
- Expansion, Betrayal and the War That Changed Pro Wrestling Forever
- De: Tim Hornbaker
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 277
By creating WrestleMania, jumping into the pay-per-view field, and expanding across North America, Vince McMahon changed professional wrestling forever.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Enjoyable Listen
- De Casey en 03-21-19
De: Tim Hornbaker
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The Missing Ring
- How Bear Bryant and the 1966 Alabama Crimson Tide Were Denied College Football's Most Elusive Prize
- De: Keith Dunnavant
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 31
Very few institutions in American sports can match the enduring excellence of the University of Alabama football program. Across a wide swath of the last century, the tradition-rich Crimson Tide has claimed twelve national championships, captured 25 conference titles, finished 34 times among the country's top ten, and played in 53 bowl games.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De John Rogers en 03-29-18
De: Keith Dunnavant
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The Perfect Mile
- Three Athletes. One Goal. And Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 280
In the tradition of Seabiscuit, critically acclaimed author Neal Bascomb reaches back to the golden age of sport and crafts an utterly captivating narrative of what may be the most remarkable athletic feat of all time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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nailbiting, on the edge of your seat
- De Todd en 08-10-04
De: Neal Bascomb
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Spain
- The Inside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble
- De: Graham Hunter
- Narrado por: Graham Hunter
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
This is the story of the greatest achievement in the history of international football. After decades of failure, Spain won the European Championship in 2008 and then the World Cup in 2010. At Euro 2012 they became the first team to win three consecutive tournament titles. Graham Hunter was inside the dressing room as the players celebrated after the finals of the World Cup and Euro 2012.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Insider look masterclass
- De Peter en 08-07-15
De: Graham Hunter
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The Strenuous Life
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete
- De: Ryan Swanson
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
In full and intricate detail, featuring an amazing cast of characters from the worlds of politics, athletics, entertainment and more, this is the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt helped shepherd in a sports and fitness revolution that forever changed the complexion of the United States.
De: Ryan Swanson