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Pacific Rims

Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball

by Rafe Bartholomew ...

A young man's journey through the Philippines' most unlikely obsession: basketball.In Pacific Rims, Rafe Bartholemew, journalist, New Yorker, and veteran baller, ventures through the Philippines to investigate the country's love of basketball.From street corners where diehards fashion hoops out of old car parts to the professional league where politicians exploit team loyalties to win elections, ... Read more

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A young man's journey through the Philippines' most unlikely obsession: basketball.In Pacific Rims, Rafe Bartholemew, journalist, New Yorker, and veteran baller, ventures through the Philippines to investigate the country's love of basketball.From street corners where diehards fashion hoops out of old car parts to the professional league where politicians exploit team loyalties to win elections,
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Basketball

A Love Story

by Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew, Dan Klores ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world—as told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game’s ultimate icons.This is the greatest love story never told. It has passion and heartbreak, triumph ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Inspired by a major ESPN film series, this is an extraordinary oral history of basketball—its eye-opening untold history, its profound deeper meaning, its transformative influence on the world—as told through an unprecedented series of candid conversations with the game’s ultimate icons.This is the greatest love story never told. It has passion and heartbreak, triumph
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Two and Two

McSorley's, My Dad, and Me

by Rafe Bartholomew ...

A deeply stirring memoir of fathers, sons, and the oldest bar in New York City.Since it opened in 1854, McSorley's Old Ale House has been a New York institution. This is the landmark watering hole where Abraham Lincoln campaigned and Boss Tweed kicked back with the Tammany Hall machine. Where a pair of Houdini's handcuffs found their final resting place. And where soldiers left behind wishbones ... Read more

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A deeply stirring memoir of fathers, sons, and the oldest bar in New York City.Since it opened in 1854, McSorley's Old Ale House has been a New York institution. This is the landmark watering hole where Abraham Lincoln campaigned and Boss Tweed kicked back with the Tammany Hall machine. Where a pair of Houdini's handcuffs found their final resting place. And where soldiers left behind wishbones
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Two and Two

McSorley's, My Dad, and Me

by Rafe Bartholomew ...

Narrated by Rafe Bartholomew ...

Unabridged

7 hours 58 min

A deeply stirring memoir of fathers, sons, and the oldest bar in New York City.Since it opened in 1854, McSorley's Old Ale House has been a New York institution. This is the landmark watering hole where Abraham Lincoln campaigned and Boss Tweed kicked back with the Tammany Hall machine. Where a pair of Houdini's handcuffs found their final resting place. And where soldiers left behind wishbones ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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A deeply stirring memoir of fathers, sons, and the oldest bar in New York City.Since it opened in 1854, McSorley's Old Ale House has been a New York institution. This is the landmark watering hole where Abraham Lincoln campaigned and Boss Tweed kicked back with the Tammany Hall machine. Where a pair of Houdini's handcuffs found their final resting place. And where soldiers left behind wishbones
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Basketball

A Love Story

by Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew, Dan Klores ...

Narrated by James Fouhey, Jim Frangione, Sullivan Jones, Pete Larkin, January LaVoy, Carol Monda ...

Unabridged

16 hours 9 min

A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game.In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, acclaimed authors Jackie Macmullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores have compiled nearly a thousand hours' worth of interviews ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game.In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, acclaimed authors Jackie Macmullan, Rafe Bartholomew and Dan Klores have compiled nearly a thousand hours' worth of interviews
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The Last Pass

Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End

by Gary M. Pomerantz ...

Narrated by Gary M. Pomerantz ...

Unabridged

12 hours 15 min

**The New York Times bestsellerOut of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, a Boston Celtics team led by Bill Russell and Bob Cousy, comes an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret**About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment. ... Read more

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**The New York Times bestsellerOut of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, a Boston Celtics team led by Bill Russell and Bob Cousy, comes an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret**About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment.
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Basketball (and Other Things)

A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated

by Shea Serrano ...

Narrated by Sean Crisden ...

Unabridged

8 hours 38 min

This book is made up of thirty-three chapters. Each chapter is a different basketball question that needs to be answered. Some of them are obviously crucial (Example: What's the Most Important NBA Championship?) and some of them are secretly crucial (Example: Was Kobe Bryant a Dork?). But all of them are approached in ways that (I hope you think) are smart and fun and nuanced. Also, you should ... Read more

$16.99 USD

This book is made up of thirty-three chapters. Each chapter is a different basketball question that needs to be answered. Some of them are obviously crucial (Example: What's the Most Important NBA Championship?) and some of them are secretly crucial (Example: Was Kobe Bryant a Dork?). But all of them are approached in ways that (I hope you think) are smart and fun and nuanced. Also, you should
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Masters of the Game

A Conversational History of the NBA in 75 Legendary Players

by Sam Smith, Phil Jackson ...

Narrated by Sam Smith, Phil Jackson, Nayib Felix ...

Unabridged

9 hours 54 min

The legendary sportswriter and the Hall of Fame, eleven-time NBA champion coach separate the music from the noise in the stories of the greatest who ever played and their impact on the gameSam Smith and Phil Jackson grew to know and respect each other in the late 1980s, when Smith was a Chicago Tribune sportswriter and Jackson was an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls. Forty years later, the ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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The legendary sportswriter and the Hall of Fame, eleven-time NBA champion coach separate the music from the noise in the stories of the greatest who ever played and their impact on the gameSam Smith and Phil Jackson grew to know and respect each other in the late 1980s, when Smith was a Chicago Tribune sportswriter and Jackson was an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls. Forty years later, the
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The Victory Machine

The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty

by Ethan Sherwood Strauss ...

Narrated by Ethan Sherwood Strauss ...

Unabridged

6 hours 35 min

How money, guts, and greed built the Warriors dynasty -- and then took it apartThe Golden State Warriors dominated the NBA for the better part of a decade. Since the arrival of owner Joe Lacob, they won more championships and sold more merchandise than any other franchise in the sport. And in 2019, they opened the doors on a lavish new stadium.Yet all this success contained some of the seeds of ... Read more

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How money, guts, and greed built the Warriors dynasty -- and then took it apartThe Golden State Warriors dominated the NBA for the better part of a decade. Since the arrival of owner Joe Lacob, they won more championships and sold more merchandise than any other franchise in the sport. And in 2019, they opened the doors on a lavish new stadium.Yet all this success contained some of the seeds of
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Tanking to the Top

The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports

by Yaron Weitzman ...

Narrated by Yaron Weitzman ...

Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

Enter the City of Brotherly Love and see how the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers trusted The Process–using a bold plan to get to first by becoming the worst.When a group of private equity bigwigs purchased the Philadelphia 76ers in 2011, the team was both bad and boring. Attendance was down. So were ratings. The Sixers had an aging coach, an antiquated front office, and a group of players that could best ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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Enter the City of Brotherly Love and see how the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers trusted The Process–using a bold plan to get to first by becoming the worst.When a group of private equity bigwigs purchased the Philadelphia 76ers in 2011, the team was both bad and boring. Attendance was down. So were ratings. The Sixers had an aging coach, an antiquated front office, and a group of players that could best
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The "Down Goes Brown" History of the NHL

The World's Most Beautiful Sport, the World's Most Ridiculous League

by Sean McIndoe ...

Narrated by Sean McIndoe ...

Unabridged

7 hours 52 min

Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey's favourite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game's most memorable moments--especially if they're memorable for the wrong reasons--in this warts-and-all history of the NHL.The NHL is, indisputably, weird. One moment, you're in awe of the speed, skill and intensity that define the sport, shaking your head as a player makes an impossible play, or ... Read more

$22.95 USD

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Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey's favourite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game's most memorable moments--especially if they're memorable for the wrong reasons--in this warts-and-all history of the NHL.The NHL is, indisputably, weird. One moment, you're in awe of the speed, skill and intensity that define the sport, shaking your head as a player makes an impossible play, or
... Read more

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All the Light We Cannot See

A Novel

by Anthony Doerr ...

Narrated by Zach Appelman ...

Unabridged

16 hours 2 min

Winner of the Audie Award for Fiction*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths ... Read more

$29.99 USD

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Winner of the Audie Award for Fiction*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths
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