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    The Deford Chronicles Part I
    The Deford Chronicles Part I ab 22.99 € als Taschenbuch: . Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen,
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    Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 746min
    Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Deford joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh, and fresh out of Princeton. In 1990, he was Editor-in-Chief of The National Sports Daily, one of the most ambitious and ill-fated projects in the history of American print journalism. But then, he's endured: writing ten novels, winning an Emmy (not to mention being a fabled Lite Beer All-Star), and last week he read something like his fourteen-hundredth commentary on NPR's Morning Edition. "From the Mad Men-like days of SI in the 60s, and the bush" years of the early NBA, to Deford's visit to apartheid South Africa with Arthur Ashe, and his friend's brave and tragic death, Over Time is packed with intriguing people and stories. Interwoven through his personal history, Deford lovingly traces the entire arc of American sports writing from the lurid early days of the Police Gazette, through Grantland Rice and Red Smith and on up to ESPN. This is a wonderful, inspired audiobook equal parts funny and touching a treasure for sports fans. Just like Frank Deford. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Deford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012016/bk_adbl_012016_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Big Bill Tilden: The Triumphs and the Tragedy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 527min
    The classic biography of America’s first tennis star. When he stepped onto the Wimbledon grass in 1920, Bill Tilden was poised to become the world’s greatest tennis star. Throughout the 1920's he dominated the sport, winning championship after championship with his trademark grace, power, and intelligence. He owned the game more completely than Babe Ruth ruled baseball, making his name, for more than a decade, synonymous with tennis. Phenomenally intelligent - he completed his first book on tennis in the three weeks before his first Wimbledon triumph - Tilden’s success came with a dark side. This classic biography, by legendary sports writer Frank Deford, tells of Tilden’s dominance, which was unlike anything the sport had ever seen - and the big man’s tragic fall. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Deford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012044/bk_adbl_012044_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Great Baseball Stories: Ruminations and Nostalgic Reminiscences on Our National Pastime , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 571min
    Here is a wonderful collection of 20 revealing essays on the national pastime. Featuring contributions from Roger Angell, John Thorn, Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Stefan Fatsis, and others (plus a foreword by the legendary Yogi Berra), the stories are united by the authors’ fervent love of the game. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keythe Farley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008709/bk_adbl_008709_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 440min
    In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford, NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history.At the turn of the twentieth century, Christy Mathewson was one of baseball's first superstars. Over six feet tall, clean cut, and college educated, he didn't pitch on the Sabbath and rarely spoke an ill word about anyone. He also had one of the most devastating arms in all of baseball. New York Giants manager John McGraw, by contrast, was ferocious. The pugnacious tough guy was already a star infielder who, with the Baltimore Orioles, helped develop a new, scrappy style of baseball, with plays like the hit-and-run, the Baltimore chop, and the squeeze play. When McGraw joined the Giants in 1902, the Giants were coming off their worst season ever. Yet within three years, Mathewson clinched New York City's first World Series for McGraw's team by throwing three straight shutouts in only six days, an incredible feat that is invariably called the greatest World Series performance ever. Because of their wonderful odd-couple association, baseball had its first superstar, the Giants ascended into legend, and baseball as a national pastime bloomed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Deford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012046/bk_adbl_012046_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Great Stories Remembered , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 178min
    Classic stories collected by America's Storyteller, Joe Wheeler. This audio collection contains nine separate short stories: "Nearest His Heart", by Josephine DeFord Terrill; "A Promise and a Ski Run" (author unknown); "The Song of Songs", by Mabel McKee; "The Unmousing of Jean", by Edna Geister; "An Hour of Victory", by Earl Reed Silvers; "Shop Around A While", by Mae Foster Jay; "The Boy Who Couldn't Be Saved" (author unknown); "Between Strokes", by Walter R. Schmidt; and "Harvest Home Harmony", by Margaret E. Sangster. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Wheeler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hove/000899/bk_hove_000899_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Wyoming's Cowboy Poets: And Their Poetry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 173min
    A wealth of cowboy poetry from some of Wyoming's best cowboy poets are included in this audiobook along with their biographies. Among them: Robert Roripaugh, a state poet laureate; John Nesbitt, Sue Wallis, Andy Nelson, Chuck Larsen, Georgie Sicking, Charlie Firnekas, Rhonda Sedgewick Stearns, Mick Kaser, Jean Mathisen Haugen, Dr. Kent Stockton, Echo Roy-Klaproth, Ada McDonell, Ron Bailey, Gene Shea, Leslie Keltner, Verlin Pitt, Ritt Pitt, Terry Henderson, Garland C. Kennington, Lynne Henderson, Pete Davis, Honey DeFord, Stephen Langer, Robin Schuppan, John Shreve, Josephine "Jo" Fulton, and R. G. Sowers. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Meral Mathews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/015846/bk_acx0_015846_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Paint This Town
    Auf 'Paint This Town' bietet die US-amerikanische, gleich zweifach mit einem Grammy ausgezeichnete Alternative Country-Folk-Band aus Nashville einen fesselnden Einblick in die amerikanische Mythologie und die farbenfrohen Charaktere, die sie bevölkern. Das von OCMS und Matt Ross-Spang gemeinsam produzierte siebte Studioalbum der Band ist eine Hommage an alle von Elvis Presley bis Eudora Welty und wirft ein helles Licht auf die dunkleren Aspekte des Erbes des Landes. Angetrieben von Old Crows charakteristischem Mix aus Americana, Old-Time-Musik, Folk und Rock & Roll, verwandelt Paint This Town messerscharfe Kommentare in leidenschaftliche Sing-Alongs.Tracklist CD:1. Paint This Town2. Bombs Away3. Gloryland4. Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise5. Honey Chile6. Reasons To Run7. Painkiller8. Used To Be A Mountain9. Deford Rides Again10. New Mississippi Flag11. John Brown's Dream12. Hillbilly BoyLinks:Webiste: https://www.crowmedicine.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crowmedicine/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OldCrowMedicineShow/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/oldcrowvideos
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    Everybody's All-American , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 649min
    Gavin Grey is everyone's All-American. A star running back at the University of North Carolina in the late 1950s, he graces the covers of Time and LIFE magazines and appears on the "Ed Sullivan Show." Everyone wants a piece of him or to be around him to bask in his glory, including his nephew Donny, who narrates the story and is Gavin's only real confidant.After college, Gavin goes on to the NFL where he has a solid career. As his playing days wind down and the cheering stops, however, he finds the adjustment to life as an ex-athlete difficult to accept. His wife "Babs" goes off to work, becomes the primary breadwinner for the family while Gavin continues to trade on his memories of old times, when he was everybody's All-American. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Frank Deford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012045/bk_adbl_012045_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Great Football Writing , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1412min
    For more than 50 years, Sports Illustrated has been the gold standard of sports writing, and during that time, US football - once a popular college pastime, but only a rag-tag professional game - has moved to center stage, taking its unquestioned place as Americas most popular sport. This book brings together dozens of football classics from the pages of Sports Illustrated, featuring the work of such esteemed writers as John O'Hara and Jack Kerouac, Dan Jenkins and George Plimpton, Don DeLillo, John Underwood, and John Ed Bradley. And of course, the collection includes many of the longtime favorites of Sports Illustrated fans: Frank Deford and Rick Reilly, Steve Rushin and Gary Smith, Peter King and Rick Telander, and the inimitable Dr. Z, Paul Zimmerman. Covering more than half a century of the game at every level from high school to the Super Bowl, this volume will be indispensable listening for serious football fans. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012701/bk_adbl_012701_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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