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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 1,282 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 404 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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    • 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 37 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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    • A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution
    • By: Michael Silver
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • The Why Is Everything is the story of old dogmas falling before astonishingly creative new strategies and game plans.

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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 1,652 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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    • 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 155 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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    • 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 22 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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    • 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 37 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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    • 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 121 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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    • The Inside Story of the Greatest Golf Ever Played (Tiger Woods in 2000–2001)
    • By: Kevin Cook
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Twenty-five years ago, Tiger Woods achieved the greatest feat in golf history: the “Tiger Slam.” Now, for the first time, the award-winning author of Tommy’s Honor delivers a riveting account of Tiger at his most brilliant—dominating the game in a way we will never see again.

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    • Lionel Messi and the Making—and Unmaking—of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
    • By: Simon Kuper
    • Narrated by: Steve West
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • With rare and unrivaled access, best-selling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world—and how that era is now ending....

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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 514 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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    • 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 367 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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    • 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 8 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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    • 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 657 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 10 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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    • Golf, Money, and Power in Augusta, Georgia
    • By: Curt Sampson
    • Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell....

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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 24 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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