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Soccernomics
- By: Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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Why does England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America play the sport internationally... and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style? Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game works, Soccernomics reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about soccer.
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Interesting but older version of the book
- By Hansi on 05-08-13
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Soccernomics
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-01-10
- Language: English
- Why does England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America play the sport internationally... and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style....
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The Club
- How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
- By: Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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No one knew it when their experiment began, but without any particular genius or acumen, the motley cast of billionaires and hucksters behind the modern Premier League struck gold. Pretty soon, everyone wanted to try their luck, from Russian oligarchs to Emirati sheikhs, American tycoons, and Asian Tiger titans. Some succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Some lost everything. Today, players are sold for tens of millions, clubs are valued in the billions, and games are beamed out to nearly 200 countries, all while the league struggles to preserve its English soul.
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- By JR3 on 01-23-19
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The Club
- How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 12-04-18
- Language: English
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This is a sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and 25 years of drama remade an ancient institution into a 21st-century entertainment empire....
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The Club
- How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport
- By: Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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The never-before-told inside story of how the Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular entertainment business on the planet. How did English football - once known for its stale pies, bad bookkeeping and hooligans - become a commercial powerhouse and the world's premium popular entertainment? This was a business empire built in only 25 years on ambition, experimentation and gambler's luck.
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The Club
- How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-12-18
- Language: English
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The never-before-told inside story of how the Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular entertainment business on the planet....
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Moneyball
- The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- By: Michael Lewis
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Moneyball is a quest for something that money can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected by a brotherhood of baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, and physics professors. These numbers prove that the traditional measure of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. This information has been around for years, and nobody paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland A's.
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Best Audible Book Yet
- By Steven on 06-15-03
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Moneyball
- The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- Narrated by: Michael Lewis
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-06-03
- Language: English
- "I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story..."
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What's My Name, Fool?
- Sports and Resistance in the United States
- By: Dave Zirin
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Here Edgeofsports.com sportswriter Dave Zirin shows how sports express the worst, as well as the most creative and exciting, features of American society. Zirin explores how Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash-time show exposed more than a breast, why the labor movement has everything to learn from sports unions, and why a new generation of athletes is no longer content to "play one game at a time" and is starting to get political.
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Interesting read
- By sosnows8 on 08-16-20
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What's My Name, Fool?
- Sports and Resistance in the United States
- Narrated by: Aaron Abano
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-19-17
- Language: English
- Zirin explores how the labor movement has everything to learn from sports unions and why a new generation of athletes is no longer content to "play one game at a time" and is starting to get political....
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The Formula
- How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest Growing Sport
- By: Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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For decades in America, car racing meant NASCAR, and to a lesser extent IndyCar, with Formula 1—the wealthiest racing league in the world—a distant third. Fast forward to 2023, and F1 has emerged at the front of the pack powered by a passionate yet nascent American fanbase. The F1 juggernaut has arrived, but this checkered flag was far from inevitable.
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For the complete F1 story...
- By Hybrid Builder on 05-22-24
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The Formula
- How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest Growing Sport
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 03-12-24
- Language: English
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For decades in America, car racing meant NASCAR, and to a lesser extent IndyCar, with Formula 1—the wealthiest racing league in the world—a distant third....
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The Grandest Stage
- A History of the World Series
- By: Tyler Kepner
- Narrated by: Tyler Kepner
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It’s the place where legends are made, where celebration and devastation can hinge on a fly ball off a foul pole or a grounder beneath a first baseman’s glove. And there’s no one better to bring this rich history to life than New York Times national baseball columnist Tyler Kepner, whose bestselling book about pitching, K, was lauded as “Michelangelo explaining the brush strokes on the Sistine Chapel” by Newsday.
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Excellent!
- By DavidF on 09-09-24
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The Grandest Stage
- A History of the World Series
- Narrated by: Tyler Kepner
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 10-11-22
- Language: English
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The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It’s the place where legends are made, where celebration and devastation can hinge on a fly ball off a foul pole or a grounder beneath a first baseman’s glove....
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Godwin
- A Novel
- By: Joseph O'Neill
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton, Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the United Kingdom, is a desperate young soccer agent. He pulls Mark across the ocean into a scheme to track down an elusive prospect known only as “Godwin”—an African teenager Geoff believes could be the next Lionel Messi.
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Not Netherland.
- By Amazon Customer on 10-31-24
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Godwin
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton, Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 06-04-24
- Language: English
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Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the UK, is a desperate young soccer agent. He pulls Mark across the ocean into a scheme to track down an elusive prospect....
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A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean
- A Bicycle Journey Through the Northern Dominion of Oil
- By: David Goodrich
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Recently recovered from his epic bicycle journey that took him from the Delaware shore to the Oregon coast, distinguished climate scientist David Goodrich sets out on his bike again to traverse the Western Interior Seaway - an ancient ocean that once spread across half of North America. When the waters cleared a geologic age ago, what was left behind was vast flat prairie, otherworldly rock formations, and oil shale deposits.
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A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean
- A Bicycle Journey Through the Northern Dominion of Oil
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-13-20
- Language: English
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In a manner reminiscent of John McPhee and Rachel Carson, combined with Goodrich’s wry self-deprecation and scientific expertise, A Voyage Across an Ancient Ocean is a galvanizing and adventure-filled listen that gets to the heart of drilling on our continent....
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
- How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game
- By: Edward Achorn
- Narrated by: Ax Norman
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Chris Von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the St. Louis Browns, the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important - and funniest - figures in the game’s history.
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Well written and extensive research but just not interesting
- By Samuel C on 07-30-20
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey
- How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game
- Narrated by: Ax Norman
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-09-13
- Language: English
- Chris Von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the St. Louis Browns, the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals....
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Prepper's Essential Guide to Surviving a Natural Disaster, Doomsday Event, and Economic Meltdown
- By: Butch S. Hardcastle
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 52 mins
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Butch S. Hardcastle is back; the author of Survive Doomsday - How to Become a Prepper and Survive After a Doomsday Event offers more great guidance on how to prepare for the events that will change the world as we know it. In this one hour-lunchtime listen series book, Butch looks at a range of specific doomsday events and how you would go about surviving each one.
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Prepper's Essential Guide to Surviving a Natural Disaster, Doomsday Event, and Economic Meltdown
- Narrated by: Bobby Brill
- Length: 52 mins
- Release date: 09-23-14
- Language: English
- In this one hour-lunchtime listen series book, Butch looks at a range of specific doomsday events and how you would go about surviving each one....
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Bad Sports
- How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
- By: Dave Zirin
- Narrated by: Jones Allen
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Funny, engaging, and sharply pointed in his appraisal of the sports complex bankrupting our cities, the celebrated author of A People’s History of Sports in the United States returns with a hard-hitting indictment of big business and the corrupt practices that are ruining the sports we love.When attending a baseball game becomes a luxury reserved for the wealthy few and cities build multi-million dollar stadiums while letting their bridges crumble, the price of sports in this country demands reassessment.
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The book is great but the narrator is awful.
- By steve finkelstein on 02-21-22
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Bad Sports
- How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
- Narrated by: Jones Allen
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 11-25-13
- Language: English
- This audiobook is a funny, engaging, and sharply pointed appraisal of how the sports complex is bankrupting our cities....
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Bicycle/Race
- Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
- By: Adonia E. Lugo PhD
- Narrated by: Melissa Medina
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity.
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Bicycle/Race
- Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
- Narrated by: Melissa Medina
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-21-22
- Language: English
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Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels....
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The Sport and Prey of Capitalists
- By: Linda McQuaig
- Narrated by: Sarah Pesek
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Why are we selling off the impressive public enterprises we often battled as a nation to create? In The Sport and Prey of Capitalists, Linda McQuaig challenges the dogma of privatization, which has defined our political era. She argues that now more than ever, as we grapple with climate change and income inequality, we need to expand, not shrink, our public sphere.
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The Sport and Prey of Capitalists
- Narrated by: Sarah Pesek
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 02-02-23
- Language: English
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In The Sport and Prey of Capitalists, Linda McQuaig challenges the dogma of privatization, which has defined our political era. She argues that now more than ever, as we grapple with climate change and income inequality, we need to expand, not shrink, our public sphere....
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Writings on the Wall
- Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
- By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
- Narrated by: Ben Adduchio
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar brings keen insight to the fore in Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White, his most incisive and important work of nonfiction in years. He uses his unique blend of erudition, street smarts, and authentic experience in essays on the country's seemingly irreconcilable partisan divide, both racial and political; parenthood; and his own experiences as an athlete, an African American, and a Muslim.
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mild rant about almost everything
- By Andy on 11-07-16
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Writings on the Wall
- Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White
- Narrated by: Ben Adduchio
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-04-16
- Language: English
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar brings keen insight to the fore in Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White, his most incisive and important work of nonfiction in years....
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Homestand
- Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
- By: Will Bardenwerper
- Length: 10 hrs
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Batavia, New York—between Rochester and Buffalo—hosted its first professional baseball game in 1897. Despite decades of deindustrialization and evaporating middle-class jobs, the Batavia Muckdogs endured. When Major League Baseball cravenly shut them down in 2020—along with forty-one other minor league teams—the town fought back, reviving the Muckdogs as a summer league team comprised of college players.
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Homestand
- Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 03-11-25
- Language: English
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Batavia, New York—between Rochester and Buffalo—hosted its first professional baseball game in 1897. Despite decades of deindustrialization and evaporating middle-class jobs, the Batavia Muckdogs endured.
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Hochgekämpft
- Eine Kindheit in Berlin, eine Liebe für Wrestling
- By: Ahmed Chaer, Hussen Chaer
- Narrated by: Eko Fresh
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
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Ahmed und Hussen Chaer sind Wrestling-Stars - und doch ganz anders als die meisten Erfolgssportler. Die Flucht des Vaters aus dem Libanon, eine Kindheit im Kreuzberger Hinterhaus, ihr Einsatz gegen Vorurteile und Ausgrenzung: All das hat die unzertrennlichen Brüder geprägt - und macht sie zu sympathischen Streitern für eine bessere Welt.
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Hochgekämpft
- Eine Kindheit in Berlin, eine Liebe für Wrestling
- Narrated by: Eko Fresh
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-22-22
- Language: German
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Ahmed und Hussen Chaer sind Wrestling-Stars - und doch ganz anders als die meisten Erfolgssportler. Die Flucht des Vaters aus dem...
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