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Ballyhoo!
- The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling (Sports and American Culture)
- Written by: Jon Langmead
- Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling is a history of professional wrestling’s formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the “sport” as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town gatherings to melodramatic mass entertainment that reliably drew large crowds in cities across the nation.
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Ballyhoo!
- The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling (Sports and American Culture)
- Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-10
- Language: English
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The Fur Trade Gamble
- North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820
- Written by: Lloyd Keith, John C. Jackson
- Narrated by: Bill Nevitt
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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In an era of grand risk, fur moguls vied to command the northwest and China markets, gambling lives and capital on the price of beaver pelts, purchases of ships and trade goods, international commerce laws, and the effects of war.
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The Fur Trade Gamble
- North West Company on the Pacific Slope, 1800-1820
- Narrated by: Bill Nevitt
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2017-02-14
- Language: English
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The Kentucky Derby
- How the Run for the Roses Became America's Premier Sporting Event
- Written by: James C. Nicholson
- Narrated by: Gregg A. Rizzo
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Each year on the first Saturday in May, the world turns its attention to the twin spires of Churchill Downs for the high-stakes excitement of the "greatest two minutes in sports," the Kentucky Derby. No American sporting event can claim the history, tradition, or pageantry that the Kentucky Derby holds. For more than 130 years, spectators have been fascinated by the magnificent horses that run the Louisville track. Thoroughbreds such as Secretariat and Barbaro have earned instant international fame.
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The Kentucky Derby
- How the Run for the Roses Became America's Premier Sporting Event
- Narrated by: Gregg A. Rizzo
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-18
- Language: English
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The Old Pro Turkey Hunter
- Written by: Gene Nunnery
- Narrated by: John Burlinson
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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During his life, Gene Nunnery was recognized as a master turkey hunter and an artisan who crafted unique, almost irresistible turkey calls. In The Old Pro Turkey Hunter, the vaunted sportsman shares over 50 years of personal experience in Mississippi and surrounding states, along with the decades-old wisdom of the huntsmen who taught him. Throughout the book, his stories make clear that turkey hunting is more than just killing the bird - it is about matching wits with a wild and savvy adversary.
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The Old Pro Turkey Hunter
- Narrated by: John Burlinson
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-08
- Language: English
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Baseball's Endangered Species
- Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
- Written by: Lee Lowenfish
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
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Scouting has been called pro baseball’s personalized way of renewing itself from year to year and a pathway to the game’s past. It takes a very special person to be a baseball scout: normal family life is out of the question because travel is a constant companion. Scouts have the difficult task of not only discovering and signing new players but envisioning the trajectory of raw talent into the future. But the place of the traditional scout has become increasingly dire.
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Baseball's Endangered Species
- Inside the Craft of Scouting by Those Who Lived It
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-03
- Language: English
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The Hard Way Home
- Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt (Outdoor Lives)
- Written by: Steve Kahn
- Narrated by: Gary Malhiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the “metropolis” of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood of berry picking, fishing, and hunting led to a life as a big-game guide. When he wasn’t guiding in the spring and fall, he worked as a commercial fisherman and earned his pilot’s license, pursuits that took him to the far reaches of the Alaskan wilderness. He lived through some of the most important moments in the state’s history.
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The Hard Way Home
- Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt (Outdoor Lives)
- Narrated by: Gary Malhiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-19
- Language: English
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Alou: My Baseball Journey
- Written by: Felipe Alou, Peter Kerasotis, Pedro Martínez - foreword
- Narrated by: Sam Gonzalez
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In this extraordinary autobiography, Felipe Alou tells of his real dream: to become a doctor. An uncle was funding his university education when an improbable turn of events intervened at the 1955 Pan American Games. There as a track and field athlete, Alou was pressed into service on the baseball field to replace a player sent home for disciplinary reasons. A scout noticed Alou and offered him two hundred pesos to sign a pro contract.
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Alou: My Baseball Journey
- Narrated by: Sam Gonzalez
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-01
- Language: English
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Waterman
- The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku
- Written by: David Davis
- Narrated by: Aaron Killian
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman.
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Waterman
- The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku
- Narrated by: Aaron Killian
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2017-08-29
- Language: English
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Baseball
- A History of America's Game
- Written by: Benjamin G. Rader
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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A succinct history of baseball, newly revised and updated. In this third edition of his lively history of America's game, widely recognized as the best of its kind, Benjamin G. Rader expands his scope, covering record crowds and record income, construction of new ballparks, a change in the strike zone, a surge in recruiting Japanese players, and an emerging cadre of explosive long-ball hitters. The book is published by The University of Illinois Press.
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Baseball
- A History of America's Game
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2010-08-05
- Language: English
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Taking Shergar
- Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case (Horses in History)
- Written by: Milton C. Toby
- Narrated by: Robert Ferraro
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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It was a cold and foggy February night in 1983 when a group of armed thieves crept onto Ballymany Stud, near The Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland, to steal Shergar, one of the thoroughbred industry's most renowned stallions. The thieves demanded a hefty ransom for the safe return of one of the most valuable Thoroughbreds in the world, but the ransom was never paid and Shergar's remains have never been found.
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Taking Shergar
- Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case (Horses in History)
- Narrated by: Robert Ferraro
- Series: Horses in History, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2019-06-28
- Language: English
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The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime
- Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865-1913
- Written by: Steven Riess
- Narrated by: Emil N Gallina
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
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Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. It grew because spectators enjoyed the pageantry, the exciting races, and, most of all, the gambling. In The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime, author Steven Riess fills a long-neglected gap in sports history, offering a richly detailed and fascinating chronicle of thoroughbred racing's heyday.
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The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime
- Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865-1913
- Narrated by: Emil N Gallina
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-09
- Language: English
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The Business of Sports Agents
- Written by: Kenneth L. Shropshire, Timothy Davis, N. Jeremi Duru
- Narrated by: Gary Galone
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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In The Business of Sports Agents, Kenneth L. Shropshire, Timothy Davis, and N. Jeremi Duru, experts in the fields of sports business and law, examine the history of the sports agent business and the rules and laws developed to regulate the profession. They also consider recommendations for reform, including uniform laws that would apply to all agents, redefining amateurism in college sports, and stiffening requirements for licensing agents.
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The Business of Sports Agents
- Narrated by: Gary Galone
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-01
- Language: English
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Freshwater Passages: The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond
- Written by: David Chapin
- Narrated by: Alexander G.
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
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Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740-1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, in the Canadian Northwest, and was a partner in Montreal’s North West Company. Knowing 18th-century North America on a scale that few others did, Pond drew some of the earliest maps of western Canada. David Chapin presents Pond’s life as part of a generation of traders who came of age between the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution.
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Freshwater Passages: The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond
- Narrated by: Alexander G.
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2019-03-18
- Language: English
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Negro League Baseball
- The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
- Written by: Neil Lanctot
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
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The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South. While most black businesses struggled to survive from year to year, professional baseball teams and leagues operated for decades, representing a major achievement in black enterprise and institution building.
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Negro League Baseball
- The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2013-01-10
- Language: English
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Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire
- Written by: Tom Chaffin
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
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The career of John Charles Frémont (1813-90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its 18th-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire and illuminates his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West.
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Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire
- Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-28
- Language: English
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The Rise of the National Basketball Association
- Written by: David George Surdam
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Today's National Basketball Association commands millions of spectators worldwide, and its many franchises are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But the league wasn't always so successful or glamorous: in the 1940s and 1950s, the NBA and its predecessor, the Basketball Association of America, were scrambling to attract fans. Teams frequently played in dingy gymnasiums, players traveled as best they could, and their paychecks could bounce higher than a basketball.
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The Rise of the National Basketball Association
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2014-04-07
- Language: English
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Sports Journalism
- A History of Glory, Fame, and Technology
- Written by: Patrick S. Washburn, Chris Lamb
- Narrated by: Josh Brogadir
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Patrick S. Washburn and Chris Lamb tell the full story of the past, the present, and to a degree, the future of American sports journalism. Sports Journalism chronicles how and why technology, religion, social movements, immigration, racism, sexism, social media, athletes, and sportswriters and broadcasters changed sports as well as how sports are covered and how news about sports are presented and disseminated.
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Sports Journalism
- A History of Glory, Fame, and Technology
- Narrated by: Josh Brogadir
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-03
- Language: English
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For the Birds
- Protecting Wildlife Through the Naturalist Gaze (Nature, Society, and Culture)
- Written by: Elizabeth Cherry
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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For the Birds offers listeners a glimpse behind the binoculars and reveals birders to be important allies in the larger environmental conservation movement. With a wealth of data from in-depth interviews and over three years of observing birders in the field, environmental sociologist Elizabeth Cherry argues that birders learn to watch wildlife in ways that make an invaluable contribution to contemporary conservation efforts. She investigates how birders develop a “naturalist gaze” that enables them to understand the shared ecosystem that intertwines humans and wild animals.
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For the Birds
- Protecting Wildlife Through the Naturalist Gaze (Nature, Society, and Culture)
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2021-03-10
- Language: English
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Mr. America: The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon
- Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
- Written by: John D. Fair
- Narrated by: Brian McKiernan
- Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
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For most of the 20th century, the “Mr. America” image epitomized muscular manhood. From humble beginnings in 1939 at a small gym in Schenectady, New York, the Mr. America Contest became the world’s premier bodybuilding event over the next 30 years. Interviewing nearly one hundred major figures in the physical culture movement (including 25 Mr. Americas) and incorporating copious printed and manuscript sources, John D. Fair has created the definitive study of this iconic phenomenon.
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Mr. America: The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon
- Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
- Narrated by: Brian McKiernan
- Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2020-06-16
- Language: English
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Pacific Lady: The First Woman to Sail Solo Across the World's Largest Ocean
- Outdoor Lives
- Written by: Sharon Sites Adams, Karen Coates
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Inspiring and exciting, Adams's memoir recounts the personal path leading to her historic achievements: a tomboy childhood in the Oregon high desert, an early marriage and painful divorce, and a second marriage that ended when her husband died of cancer. In the wake of his death and almost by accident, Adams discovered sailing. Six weeks after her first sailing lesson, she bought a boat, and within eight months, she set out to achieve her first world record.
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Pacific Lady: The First Woman to Sail Solo Across the World's Largest Ocean
- Outdoor Lives
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2015-12-16
- Language: English
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