Showing results by publisher "University Press Audiobooks" in Sports History
-
-
Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves
- By: Martin H. Bush
- Narrated by: Jack de Golia
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
The Boston Braves (the present-day Atlanta Braves) were a bunch of losers and alcohol-soaked whiskey swiggers, buried in last place as late as mid-July of 1914. This rough gang was led by their bullying, superstitious manager George Stallings and assisted by Johnny Evers, a nasty, egotistical captain who was despised by opponents and umpires alike.
Preview -
Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves
- Narrated by: Jack de Golia
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2026
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$34.76 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Ballyhoo!
- The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling (Sports and American Culture)
- By: Jon Langmead
- Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
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.
Preview -
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: 10-05-2024
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$27.93 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
From Rails to Trails
- The Making of America's Active Transportation Network
- By: Peter Harnik
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
If, as Wallace Stegner said, the national park is “the best idea we ever had,” the rail-trail is certainly a close runner-up. Part transportation corridor, part park, the rail-trail has revolutionized the way America creates high-quality, car-free pathways for bicyclists, runners, walkers, equestrians, and more.
Preview -
From Rails to Trails
- The Making of America's Active Transportation Network
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2022
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$25.45 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Mavericks, Money, and Men
- The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football
- By: Charles Ross
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
In Mavericks, Money and Men, football historian Charles Ross chronicles the AFL's key events, including Buck Buchanan becoming the first overall draft pick in 1963, and the 1965 boycott led by black players who refused to play in the AFL All Star game after experiencing blatant racism. He also recounts how the success of the AFL forced a merger with the NFL in 1969, which arguably facilitated the evolution of modern professional football.
Preview -
Mavericks, Money, and Men
- The AFL, Black Players, and the Evolution of Modern Football
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-10-2016
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$24.33 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
The Rise of the National Basketball Association
- By: David George Surdam
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
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.
Preview -
The Rise of the National Basketball Association
- Narrated by: Todd Barsness
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2014
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$26.99 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime
- Sport and Society
- By: Richard C. Crepeau
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
This wide-ranging history synthesizes scholarship and media sources to give the listener an inside view of the television contracts, labor issues, and other off-the-field forces that shaped the National Football League. Historian Richard Crepeau shows how Commissioner Pete Rozelle's steady leadership guided the league's explosive growth during the era of Monday Night Football and the Super Bowl's transformation into a mid-winter spectacle.
Preview -
NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime
- Sport and Society
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2016
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$27.93 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Never Say Die
- A Kentucky Colt, the Epsom Derby, and the Rise of the Modern Thoroughbred Industry
- By: James Nicholson
- Narrated by: John Chester
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
A quarter of a million people braved miserable conditions at Epsom Downs on June 2, 1954, to see the 175th running of the prestigious Derby Stakes. Queen Elizabeth II and Sir Winston Churchill were in attendance, along with thousands of Britons who were all convinced of the unfailing superiority of English bloodstock and eager to see a British colt take the victory. They were shocked when a Kentucky-born chestnut named Never Say Die galloped to a two-length triumph at odds of 33-1.
Preview -
Never Say Die
- A Kentucky Colt, the Epsom Derby, and the Rise of the Modern Thoroughbred Industry
- Narrated by: John Chester
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 18-03-2016
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$22.99 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Inventing Baseball Heroes
- Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America
- By: Amber Roessner
- Narrated by: Pam Rossi
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
In Inventing Baseball Heroes, Amber Roessner examines "herocrafting" in sports journalism through an incisive analysis of the work surrounding two of baseball's most enduring personalities - Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson.
Preview -
Inventing Baseball Heroes
- Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America
- Narrated by: Pam Rossi
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 15-07-2017
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$25.15 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Outriders
- Rodeo at the Fringes of the American West
- By: Rebecca Scofield
- Narrated by: Jenn Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Rodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western rodeo hero is often a stoic white man who embodies the toughness and independence of America’s frontier past. However, marginalized people have starred in rodeos since the very beginning. Cast out of popular western mythology and pushed to the fringes in everyday life, these cowboys and cowgirls found belonging and meaning at the rodeo, staking a claim to national inclusion.
Preview Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$26.99 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Sports Journalism
- A History of Glory, Fame, and Technology
- By: Patrick S. Washburn, Chris Lamb
- Narrated by: Josh Brogadir
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
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.
Preview -
Sports Journalism
- A History of Glory, Fame, and Technology
- Narrated by: Josh Brogadir
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2022
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$25.45 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
America's First Olympics: The St. Louis Games of 1904
- Sports and American Culture, Book 1
- By: George R. Matthews
- Narrated by: Josh Brogadir
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Eager to celebrate its history, and display its athletic potential, the United States hosted the nation’s first Olympic games in 1904 St. Louis. But within a few years, the publication of Coubertin’s memoirs turned the praised Olympics into the failed Olympics. America’s First Olympics corrects common misconceptions that began with Coubertin’s memoirs, and presents a fresh view of the 1904 games, which featured first-time African American Olympians, an eccentric and controversial marathon, and documentation by pioneering photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals.
Preview -
America's First Olympics: The St. Louis Games of 1904
- Sports and American Culture, Book 1
- Narrated by: Josh Brogadir
- Series: Sports and American Culture
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2022
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$24.89 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
A Sportswriter's Life
- From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter (Sports and American Culture, Volume 1)
- By: Gerald Eskenazi
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
When Gerald Eskenazi started reporting, sports journalism had a different look than it does today. Eskenazi gives a behind-the-scenes look into the journalistic techniques that go into crafting a story, as well as the pitfalls reporters fall into. There are cautionary tales of journalistic excess, as well as moments of triumph such as the time Eskenazi got Joe Namath to open up to him by admitting he was a sportswriter who knew nothing about football. Along the way, Eskenazi discusses interviewing other reluctant subjects and writing under the intense pressure of a deadline.
Preview -
A Sportswriter's Life
- From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter (Sports and American Culture, Volume 1)
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2021
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$26.32 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Mr. America: The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon
- Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
- By: John D. Fair
- Narrated by: Brian McKiernan
- Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
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.
Preview -
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: 16-06-2020
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$35.12 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final
- By: David A. F. Sweet
- Narrated by: Jeff Lechtanski
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
One. Two. Three. That’s as long as it took to sear the souls of a dozen young American men, thanks to the craziest, most controversial finish in the history of the Olympics - the 1972 gold-medal basketball contest between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world’s two superpowers at the time. The U.S. team believed it had won the gold medal that September in Munich - not once, but twice. The American players became the only Olympic athletes in the history of the games to refuse their medals.
Preview -
Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final
- Narrated by: Jeff Lechtanski
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 26-03-2020
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$22.99 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Kelso
- The Horse of Gold
- By: Linda Kennedy
- Narrated by: Randi Bachman
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
At his three-year debut in June 1960, no one could know that Mrs. Allaire DuPont’s small, deerlike gelding named Kelso would come to dominate American racing like no other horse before or since. In Kelso: The Horse of Gold, Linda Kennedy tells the remarkable story of one of the greatest athletes of the ages, recreating the excitement of "Kelly's" unique and brilliant career while placing his unparalleled achievements in the context of racing history.
Preview -
Kelso
- The Horse of Gold
- Narrated by: Randi Bachman
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2020
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$23.69 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
The Kingdom of Golf in America
- By: Richard J. Moss
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
From its beginnings in the northeastern United States in the 1880s, golf has seen its popularity, and its fortunes, wax and wane, affected by politics and economics, reflecting tensions between aristocratic and democratic impulses. The Kingdom of Golf in America traces these ups and downs, ins and outs, in the growth of golf as a community. Moss describes the development of the private club and public course and the impact of wealth and the consumer culture on those who play golf and those who watch.
Preview -
The Kingdom of Golf in America
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2019
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$32.64 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Making March Madness
- The Early Years of the NCAA, NIT, and College Basketball Championships, 1922-1951 (Sport, Culture, and Society)
- By: Chad Carlson
- Narrated by: Chris Snee
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Throughout the NCAA Tournament’s history, underdogs, Cinderella stories, and upsets have captured the attention and imagination of fans. Making March Madness is the story of this premiere tournament, from its early days in Kansas City, to its move to Madison Square Garden, to its surviving a point-shaving scandal in New York and taking its games to different sites across the country.
Preview -
Making March Madness
- The Early Years of the NCAA, NIT, and College Basketball Championships, 1922-1951 (Sport, Culture, and Society)
- Narrated by: Chris Snee
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2019
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$33.99 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Women on the Move
- The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing
- By: Roger Gilles
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women’s mastery over their lives. Spurred by the emergence of the “safety” bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, women’s professional bicycle racing thrived in the United States from 1895 to 1902.
Preview -
Women on the Move
- The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-06-2019
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$27.99 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
Collision of Wills: Johnny Unitas, Don Shula, and the Rise of the Modern NFL
- By: Jack Gilden
- Narrated by: Kevin F Spalding
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
As Don Shula and Johnny Unitas elevated the brutal game of football, the world around them clashed about Vietnam, civil rights, and sex. Collision of Wills looks at the complicated relationship between Don Shula, the league's winningest coach of all time, and his star player Johnny Unitas, and how their secret animosity fueled the Colts in an era when their losses were as memorable as their victories.
Preview -
Collision of Wills: Johnny Unitas, Don Shula, and the Rise of the Modern NFL
- Narrated by: Kevin F Spalding
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2018
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$29.01 or free with 30-day trial
-
-
-
The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime
- Horse Racing Politics and Organized Crime in New York 1865-1913
- By: Steven Riess
- Narrated by: Emil N Gallina
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
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.
Preview -
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: 09-08-2018
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to Wish List failed.
Please try again laterRemove from Wish List failed.
Please try again laterFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$33.91 or free with 30-day trial
-