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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/716260 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Make It Count: My Fight to Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner Author: Cecé Telfer Narrator: Cecé Telfer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 20 minutes Release date: June 18, 2024 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: By turns harrowing and hopeful, MAKE IT COUNT is the inspiring story of the first openly transgender woman to win a NCAA title, following her traditional upbringing in Jamaica, her fight to become a US citizen, and her efforts to achieve her Olympic dreams. CeCé Telfer is a warrior. The first openly transgender woman to win an NCAA championship, she has contended with transphobia on and off the track since childhood. Now, she stands at the crossroads of a national and international conversation about equity in sports, forced to advocate for her personhood and rights at every turn. After spending years training for the 2024 Olympics, Telfer has been sidelined and silenced more times than she can count. But she's never been good at taking no for an answer. MAKE IT COUNT is Telfer's raw and inspiring story. From coming of age in Jamaica, where she grew up hearing a constant barrage of slurs, to beginning her new life in Toronto and then New Hampshire, where she realized what running could offer her, to living in the backseat of her car while searching for a coach, to Mexico, where she trained for the US Trials, this book follows the arc of Telfer's Olympic dream. This is the story of running on what feels like the edge of a knife, of what it means to compete when you're not just an athlete but treated like a walking controversy. But it's also the story of resilience and athleticism, of a runner who found a clarity in her sport that otherwise eluded her—a sense of being simply alive on this earth, a human moving through space. Finally, herself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/723017 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey through America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses Author: Jimmie James Narrator: Jimmie James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: A “wonderful story of passion, commitment, resilience, and determination,” (Paul Gasol, former NBA All-Star) about one man’s quest to become the first person to play each of America’s 100 greatest golf courses in a single year, an odyssey that brings him face to face with the gulf between his impoverished childhood in the Jim Crow South and the successful executive he became. When he set out to play each of Golf Digest’s America’s100 greatest golf courses in one year, Jimmie James knew he was attempting the impossible. But then again, he’d spent his entire life defying the odds. James was born invisible. His birth certificate, long since filed away in some clerk’s office in East Texas, recorded facts about him that were deemed most relevant in the late 1950s: “colored” and “illegitimate.” His great-great-grandmother was enslaved, and his early life was confided by the privation and segregation of the late Jim Crow-era South. Four decades later—having put himself through an HBCU and determinedly risen through the executive ranks at ExxonMobil—he embarked on his journey to play the 100 greatest golf courses in the United States. In a single year. From the first tee at Augusta National, the distance between the world he grew up in and the world of extreme privilege to which he’d now managed to gain access was impossible to ignore. Playing from the Rough is a “delightful” (Kirkus Reviews), “beautiful story” (Andrew Campion, former COO of Nike) about race, class, family, and the power of perseverance, as James braids his love of golf with reflections on the path that took him from childhood poverty to the most exclusive and opulent golf courses in America.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/771441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers Author: Erik Sherman Narrator: Asa Siegel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 11, 2024 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: Fernando Valenzuela was only twenty years old when Tom Lasorda chose him as the Dodgers' opening-day starting pitcher in 1981. Born in a remote Mexican town, the left-hander had moved to the US less than two years before. He became an instant icon and there hasn't been a player since who created as many Dodgers fans. After the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles in the 1950s, relations were badly strained between the organization and the Latin world. Mexican Americans had been evicted from their homes in Chavez Ravine, LA—some forcibly—for well below market value so the city could sell the land for a new stadium. For a generation of working-class Mexican Americans, the Dodgers became a source of great anguish. However, that bitterness toward the Dodgers vanished during the 1981 season when Valenzuela attracted the fan base the Dodgers had tried in vain to reach for years. El Toro, as he was called, captured the imagination of the baseball world. A hero in Mexico, a legend in LA, and a phenomenon throughout the US, Valenzuela did more to change that tense political environment than anyone in the history of baseball. A new fan base flooded Dodger Stadium and ballparks around the US whenever Valenzuela pitched in a phenomenon that quickly became known as Fernandomania, which continued throughout a Dodger career that included six straight All-Star game appearances.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/710789 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Worrell: The Brief but Brilliant Life of a Caribbean Cricket Pioneer Author: Simon Lister Narrator: Mendez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: 'The definitive telling of the life of a West Indian hero' Sir Clive Lloyd  The brilliant all-rounder Frank Worrell had to wait until 1960 to become the first permanent Black captain of the West Indies cricket team, denied for a decade by the elitism, insularity and racism of Caribbean cricket’s rulers. When his chance finally came, Worrell transformed a talented but unfocused team into the most exciting side in the world and led his men into unforgettable series against Australia and England.   Worrell was universally admired as one of cricket’s great captains when he was knighted in 1964, but three years later, he was dead aged just forty-two.   Not merely an extraordinarily talented and record-breaking sportsman, he served the University of the West Indies after his retirement – along with the cricket team and the political federation, one of the three truly unifying elements across a fractious and diverse region.   This biography, by the author of the acclaimed Fire in Babylon and with a foreword by Sir Clive Lloyd, is the definitive telling of Frank Worrell's life and legacy. It reveals how an upbringing in Barbados, cricketing adventures around the world and a determination not to be cowed by the powers that ran island cricket, shaped a great West Indian cricketer into a great West Indian, who changed the game forever.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/715277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wimbledon: A personal history Author: Sue Barker Narrator: Sue Barker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Sue Barker first walked through those famous SW19 gates aged 13 in 1969, to play in the National Schools event. She knelt down and picked some blades of grass, wrapped them up in a tissue and took them home. Her own bit of Wimbledon. What Sue didn't know then, was that every year for the next half century, she would be back in some capacity. As a junior, aged 15, as a semi-finalist and Grand-Slam winner ranked No 3 in the world, and as a broadcaster leading the BBC coverage for thirty years. And now she returns as a storyteller. Wimbledon has a magic that draws people in, players and fans. It respects tradition, but embraces the future and stays relevant. Sue goes in search of what sets this place apart. She talks to the greats of tennis, her former mentors, contemporaries on the circuit, friends and colleagues, and they tell their stories of their own triumphs and disasters, reveal how Wimbledon changed their lives, and what it has meant to them. Sue's personal history of Wimbledon is as tightly packed with stories as the courts are with blades of grass. From the most memorable matches to the fashions and trends, the famous rivalries, the upsets and the 'You Cannot Be Serious' unforgettable moments, this is a Centre Court seat on all the riveting drama that has defined British sporting summers for all of our lifetimes. 'The thing about our Sue is that she just is Wimbledon.' John McEnroe ©2024 Sue Barker (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/786785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - 100 glorias de México: De niños a campeones Author: Alberto Lati Narrator: Alberto Lati Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: ¿Cómo surgieron las mayores glorias del deporte mexicano? Sus orígenes e inicios. Todos los obstáculos a los que se sobrepusieron. Su vida antes de conquistar el mundo. Desde pequeños pueblosen el desierto al norte del país hasta recónditos barrios en la ciudad o playas en localidades costeras, la tenacidad y el hambre como respuesta a cada problema. Leyendas de futbol y beisbol, de golf y box, de Olímpicos y Paralímpicos, elevando nuestra bandera al máximo pedestal con sus goles, puños, batazos, raquetazos, acelerones, brazadas, patadas. Inspiración pura, inspiración a la mexicana.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/736989 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99% Author: Conor Niland Narrator: Conor Niland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When Conor Niland was 16, he got the chance to hit with Serena Williams at Nick Bollettieri's famed tennis academy. Conor, the Irish junior number one, was feeling a bit homesick. Serena, also 16, already owned her own house beside the academy. Conor Niland knows what it's like when Roger Federer walks into the dressing room ('Ciao, bonjour, hello!'), and he has had the exquisitely terrible experience of facing Novak Djokovic in the world's biggest tennis stadium - while suffering from food poisoning. But he never reached the very top. The Racket is the story of pro tennis's 99%: the players who roam the globe in hope of climbing the rankings and squeaking into the Grand Slam tournaments. It brings us into a world where a few dozen super-rich players - travelling with coaches and physios - share a stage with lonely touring pros whose earnings barely cover their expenses. Painting a vivid picture of the social dynamics on tour, the economics of the game, and the shadows cast by gambling and doping, The Racket is a witty and revealing underdog's memoir and a unique look inside a fascinating hidden world. ©2024 Conor Niland (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Schoolboy: The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero Author: Waite Hoyt Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: May 28, 2024 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: Waite 'Schoolboy' Hoyt's improbable baseball journey began when the 1915 New York Giants signed him as a high school junior, for no pay and a five-dollar bonus. Based on a trove of Hoyt's writings and interview transcripts, Tim Manners has reanimated the baseball legend's untold story, entirely in Hoyt's own words. Over his twenty-three-year professional baseball career, Hoyt won 237 big league games across 3,845 2/3 innings—and one locker room brawl with Babe Ruth. He writes at length about the art of pitching and how the game and its players changed—and didn't—over his lifetime. After retiring from baseball at thirty-eight and coming to terms with his alcoholism, Hoyt found some happiness as a family man and a beloved, pioneering Cincinnati Reds radio sportscaster with a Websterian vocabulary spiked with a Brooklyn accent. When Hoyt died in 1984 his foremost legacy may have been as a raconteur who punctuated his life story with awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping anecdotes. In Schoolboy he never flinches from an unsparing account of his remarkable and paradoxical eighty-four-year odyssey.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/706644 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Growing Wings: The inside story of Red Bull Racing Author: Ben Hunt Narrator: Nigel Barden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: May 23, 2024 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Intrigue, high-stakes machinations and adrenaline-fuelled track action – Growing Wings is the never-before-told inside story of how the grid’s most fascinating, swagger-rich and win-at-all-costs team competed their way to total domination and disrupted Formula One’s world order. With exclusive access to Red Bull's inner sanctum, leading F1 writer Ben Hunt probes the operations of a world-beating Formula One team over its eventful twenty-year history, from the rivalries, turbulence and controversy, to the game-changing tech and the leadership strategies. He also talks to the drivers themselves, including Webber and Vettel, for a fascinating insight into the mindset of motorsport athletes through success, risk and challenge. Endorsed with a foreword by Team Principal Christian Horner, but maintaining journalistic independence, this is a thrilling, frank and unvarnished account of how the paddock's loudest upstarts achieved team alchemy with the promotion of a driver called Max Verstappen, and what it means to go, learn, go again, tweak, test, and ultimately outplay the competition in a way never before seen in Formula One. ©2024 Ben Hunt (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/786345 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Weltmeister von Bern: Biografie einer Jahrhundertmannschaft Author: Tobias Escher Narrator: Oliver Dupont Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 22, 2024 Genres: Sports Publisher's Summary: «Aus dem Hintergrund müsste Rahn schießen. Rahn schießt. Toooor!» Jeder Fußball-Fan kennt diese Sätze. Der deutsche Triumph 1954 gilt bis heute als ein Wunder. Manche sehen in ihm sogar die wahre Geburtsstunde der Bundesrepublik. Tobias Escher gelingt es, anhand der legendären Weltmeisterschaft ein Stück deutscher Geschichte zu erzählen - schließlich waren fast alle deutschen Spieler noch als Soldaten im Krieg, fünf Jahre zuvor war Deutschland noch besetzt gewesen, von einer Bundesliga konnte man in den Fünfzigerjahren nur träumen. «Das Wunder von Bern» schildert auch das Leben nach dem Erfolg, das nicht selten wenig glamourös war, manchmal sogar in den Alkoholismus führte. Was waren das für Spieler, die aus einem zerstörten Land ohne Profi-Liga kamen und die als unschlagbar geltenden Ungarn besiegten? Und was wurde aus ihnen? Tobias Escher verknüpft ihre Lebenswege mit dem Fokus auf Rahn und den Walter-Brüdern zu einer großen Erzählung über das Deutschland jener Zeit und die Auswirkungen unverhofften Ruhms.