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    • A History in 100 Moments
    • By: Joe Posnanski
    • Narrated by: Joe Posnanski
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • After his bestselling home run books Why We Love Baseball and The Baseball 100, Joe Posnanski turns from the national pastime to the number one sport in America.

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    • A Town, a Team, and a Dream
    • By: H. G. Bissinger
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,258 ratings
    • Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true....

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    • A Woman Running in a Man's World
    • By: Lauren Fleshman
    • Narrated by: Lauren Fleshman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 388 ratings
    • Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes....

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    • By: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
    • Narrated by: Ken Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • The companion to Ken Burns’s magnificent PBS television series—updated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, two-part "Tenth Inning"....

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    • The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
    • By: William C. Rhoden
    • Narrated by: William C. Rhoden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 365 ratings
    • Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of Black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings....

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    • Baseball and the Rise of a New City
    • By: Kevin Baker
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten heroes, spanning the game’s founding to the early 1940s....

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    • By: Michael Bamberger
    • Narrated by: David Morse
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • After a lifetime of writing about the professional sport, Michael Bamberger, “the poet laureate of golf” (GOLF magazine), delivers an exhilarating love letter to the amateur game as it’s played—and lived—by the rest of us....

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    • How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports--and Why It Matters
    • By: Linda Flanagan
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Some 75% of American families want their kids to play sports. Athletics are training grounds for character, friendship, and connection; at their best, sports insulate kids from hardship and prepare them for adult life....

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    • Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
    • By: Tyler Hamilton, Daniel Coyle
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,645 ratings
    • A definitive look at the world of professional cycling—and the doping issue surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong....

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    • The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
    • By: Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
    • College football has never been more popular - or more chaotic. Millions fill 100,000-seat stadiums every Saturday; tens of millions more watch on television every weekend.....

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    • An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference
    • By: Warren St. John
    • Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • This is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world....

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    • Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
    • By: Adharanand Finn
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 653 ratings
    • Whether running is your recreation, your religion, or just a spectator sport, Adharanand Finn’s incredible journey to the elite training camps of Kenya will captivate and inspire you....

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    • By: Daniel P. Mannix
    • Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Putting the games in the context of Rome's rise and dramatic fall, Mannix captures all the history, planning, and savage pageantry that went into creating the first spectator sports.

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    • Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster
    • By: John Barr, Dan Murphy
    • Narrated by: John Barr, Dan Murphy, Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history - with new details and insights into the institutional failures, as well as the bravery that brought it to light....

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    • Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir
    • By: Kenny Smith
    • Narrated by: Kenny Smith
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • Kenny Smith reveals memorable inside stories of his playing and broadcasting careers, focusing on the star players, coaches, and mentors who inspired him along the way....

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    • How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America
    • By: Michael MacCambridge
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in The Big Time, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s....

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    • Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football
    • By: John U. Bacon
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • For the past year, John U. Bacon has received unprecedented access to Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes....

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    • The Fall and Rise of a Football Family
    • By: Lars Anderson
    • Narrated by: Ian Alan Carlsen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports. What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football....

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    • The Fall of Lance Armstrong
    • By: Juliet Macur
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 312 ratings
    • The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall....

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    • By: Michael Bamberger
    • Narrated by: Michael Bamberger
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • To the Linksland is the captivating memoir of Bamberger’s golfing pilgrimage/extended honeymoon. From an all-night caddie bus on the back roads of southern Europe to Stark’s secret six-hole course in the Scottish Highlands, Bamberger takes you on a journey into the heart of golf.

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