Sports In The United States

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    • In Search of a Lost Icon
    • By: Steven Rinella
    • Narrated by: Steven Rinella
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10,103 ratings
    • Both a captivating narrative and a book of environmental and historical significance, American Buffalo tells us as much about ourselves as Americans as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies the American ethos....

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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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    • A Voyage Across America
    • By: William Least Heat-Moon
    • Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • The pre-eminent chronicler of American back roads - who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth - recounts his singular voyage through American waters from sea to sea....

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    • My Life in Basketball
    • By: Clyde Drexler, Kerry Eggers
    • Narrated by: Gregory Gorton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball star Clyde Drexler, one of basketball history's most dynamic players....

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    • The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball
    • By: Luke Epplin
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • The riveting story of four men - Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige - whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond....

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    • Sports and Resistance in the United States
    • By: Dave Zirin
    • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • 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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    • 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing
    • By: Wil Haygood
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Against the backdrop of one of the most tumultuous periods in recent American history, as riots and demonstrations spread across the nation, the Tigers of poor, segregated East High School in Columbus, Ohio, did something no team from one school had ever done before....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • Reluctant adventurer Bryson recounts his gruelling hike along the longest continuous footpath in the world....

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    • By: Michael Bamberger
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • One night in a Chicago restaurant, Michael Bamberger draws up a list of golf heroes. Accompanied by a sidekick and friend, Bamberger seeks to locate and get to know these luminaries....

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    • The Epic Story of Hunting in America
    • By: Philip Dray
    • Narrated by: Will Collyer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Philip Dray tells the story of hunting in America, showing how this sport has shaped our national identity. Hunting is one of America's most sacred - but also most fraught - traditions. It was promoted in the 19th century as a way to reconnect "soft" urban Americans with nature....

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    • By: James A. Michener
    • Narrated by: Larry McKeever
    • Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Sports in America is a prescient examination of the crisis in American sports that is still unfolding to this day....

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    • Introduction to Backpacking in the United States
    • By: Roger Holden
    • Narrated by: Bobbie Guerra
    • Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • Backpacking in the United States offers a wealth of opportunities to explore diverse landscapes, challenge yourself physically and mentally, and connect with nature in its purest form. From the awe-inspiring national parks to the rugged wilderness areas, coastal trails, mountain ranges, deserts....

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    • Inside the Fight to Remake Men's Soccer in the United States
    • By: George Dohrmann
    • Narrated by: Brian Telestai
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The contrast is striking. As the United States women’s national soccer team has long dominated the sport, winners of four World Cups and four Olympic gold medals, the men’s team has floundered....

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    • A Guide to Discovering Community, Connection, and a Happier Family in the Great Outdoors
    • By: Stephanie Puglisi, Jeremy Puglisi
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante, Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • See You at the Campground is packed with personal anecdotes, packing lists, site recommendations, and recipes that will help you create a one-of-a-kind vacation on a family-friendly budget....

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    • By: Cindy Dorminy
    • Narrated by: Anne Marie Damman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • After years of crying in her sweet tea, Regina finally has her life in order. She has a great job, wonderful friends, and a successful fiancé. But when the town council decides to do something special for this year’s Pickle Festival, life gets a little briny....

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    • By: Matt Christopher
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This entry in a brand-new line of sports biographies from Matt Christopher takes listeners onto the field with a soccer legend. Mia Hamm's speed, aggressive play, and ability to "read the field" helped her become the best women's soccer player in the world....

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    • The Triumph of Black Baseball in America
    • By: Gerald Early, National Baseball Hall of Fame
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 04-29-25
    • Language: English
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    • Award-winning author Gerald Early in collaboration with the National Baseball Hall of Fame explores how Black Americans have shaped baseball from its emergence after the Civil War to the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier, up to today’s game

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    • Epic Voyages in the Most Improbable Vessels
    • By: William Longyard
    • Narrated by: Jon Repp
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • A Speck on the Sea chronicles the greatest ocean voyages attempted in the littlest boats....

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    • The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
    • By: Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood, Travis Thrasher
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the 18 African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South....

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