Sports Economics

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    • By: Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski
    • Narrated by: Colin Mace
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 384 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 528 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
    • By: Michael Lewis
    • Narrated by: Michael Lewis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,422 ratings
    • "I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story..."

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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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    • 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
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • 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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    • A History of the World Series
    • By: Tyler Kepner
    • Narrated by: Tyler Kepner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Joseph O'Neill
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton, Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • 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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    • A Bicycle Journey Through the Northern Dominion of Oil
    • By: David Goodrich
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
    • By: Dave Zirin
    • Narrated by: Jones Allen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • This audiobook is a funny, engaging, and sharply pointed appraisal of how the sports complex is bankrupting our cities....

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    • Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
    • By: Adonia E. Lugo PhD
    • Narrated by: Melissa Medina
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels....

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    • Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
    • By: Will Bardenwerper
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Linda McQuaig
    • Narrated by: Sarah Pesek
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Eine Kindheit in Berlin, eine Liebe für Wrestling
    • By: Ahmed Chaer, Hussen Chaer
    • 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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