Sports & Adventure

At the intersection of sports, politics & history are the mid-century Olympics, the stage that catapulted various athletes to superstardom & the story that inspired the world.

A Survival Guide for Life: How to Achieve Your Goals, Thrive in Adversity, and Grow in Character

Embrace Adventure...

Be ready for any extreme life circumstances with this compilation of hard-earned wisdom by outdoor enthusiast & adrenaline junkie Bear Grylls, the Man who's defeated Wild time & time again.

When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks

A Triumph...

A triumph of sports journalism, this account shows a basketball team’s capacity to inspire a nation in the context of political & social tumult of the 1960s & 1970s.

Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong

A Modern Pariah...

Sports & pop culture fans alike will be engrossed in this intimate & searing portrait of Lance Armstrong, one of the most notorious public figures of our time.

Recently Added in Sports & Adventure

Ken Jones: Boots & Spikes

Ken Jones

Duckworth Lewis: The Method and the Men Behind It

Duckworth Lewis

The Golf Delusion: Why 9 out of 10 Golfers Make the Same Mistakes

The Golf Delusion

The 1908 Olympics: The First London Games

The 1908 Olympics

Growing Up With Subbuteo: My Father Invented the World's Greatest Game

Growing Up With Subbuteo

From Musket to Metallic Cartridge: A Practical History of Black Powder Firearms

From Musket to Metallic Cartridge

Golf's Golden Rule: What Every Pro Does Instinctively - And You Don't

Golf's Golden Rule

100 Things Royals Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

More Than a Season: Building a Championship Culture

More Than a Season

Tai Chi Chuan—Classical Yang Style: The Complete Long Form and Qigong

Tai Chi Chuan—Classical Yang Style

Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence

Meditations on Violence

Secrets of the Sky Caves: Danger and Discovery on Nepal's Mustang Cliffs

Secrets of the Sky Caves

Backpack Gourmet: Good Hot Grub You Can Make at Home, Dehydrate, and Pack for Quick, Easy, and Healthy Eating on the Trail

Backpack Gourmet

Steelhead Country: Angling for a Fish of Legend

Steelhead Country

Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life

Don't Give Up, Don't Give In

Conquering the Seven Summits of Sales: From Everest to Every Business, Achieving Peak Performance

Conquering the Seven Summits of Sales

Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius

Chase Your Shadow

The Longbow

Playing for First

The Soccer Fitness Guide - Learn How to Become a Faster, Stronger and More Flexible Soccer Player

The Soccer Nutrition Guide - Eat Like a Pro, Perform Like a Pro

One More Step: My Story of Living with Cerebral Palsy, Climbing Kilimanjaro, and Surviving the Hardest Race on Earth

One More Step

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

Antlers: A Guide to Collecting, Scoring, Mounting, and Carving

Antlers

Fly-Fishing with A. K.

Spies in the Deer Woods: How to Hunt Game & Monitor Wildlife with a Scouting Camera

Spies in the Deer Woods

The Practical Fly Tier

NOLS Backcountry Nutrition: Eating Beyond the Basics

NOLS Backcountry Nutrition

NOLS Wilderness Wisdom

Fly-Fishing Guide to the Henry's Fork: Hatches, Flies, Seasons & Guide Advice for 80 Miles of World-Class Water

Fly-Fishing Guide to the Henry's Fork

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?: A Remembrance

What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?

Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend

Willie Mays

Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig

Luckiest Man

Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero

Roger Maris

Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball

Vindicated

Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella

Campy

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

Opening Day

Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life

Joe DiMaggio

Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates

Wrecking Crew

The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine

The Last Commissioner

Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Baseball

Mostly True

A Moment in Time: An American Story of Baseball, Heartbreak, and Grace

A Moment in Time

Cobb: A Biography

Cobb

Billy Williams: My Sweet-Swinging Lifetime with the Cubs

Billy Williams

Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball

Ernie Harwell

My Life in Baseball

Harmon Killebrew: Ultimate Slugger

Harmon Killebrew

It's Only Me: The Ted Williams We Hardly Knew

It's Only Me

I'm Just Getting Started: Baseball's Best Storyteller on Old School Baseball, Defying the Odds, and Good Cigars

I'm Just Getting Started

Center Field on Fire: An Umpire's Life with Pine tar Bats, Spitballs, and Corked Personalities

Center Field on Fire

Still Pitching: Musings from the Mound and the Microphone

Still Pitching

Birdie: Confessions of a Baseball Nomad

Birdie

Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms: A Lifetime of Memories from Striking Out the Babe to Teeing It up with the President

Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms

The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood

The Last Boy

Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir

Me and My Dad

Straw

Reggie Jackson: The Life and Thunderous Career of Baseball's Mr. October

Reggie Jackson

A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez

A-Rod

Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball

Steinbrenner

The Soul of Baseball

View All

Scribd Audiobooks

Listen up! Audiobooks are now on Scribd.

Browse 342 Audiobooks in Sports & Adventure

Browse Audiobooks

Sports Stories from BackPage Press

Spain: The Inside Story of La Roja's Historic Treble

Spain

Murrayball: How he Gatecrashed the Golden Era

Murrayball

Sean Fallon: Celtic's Iron Man

Sean Fallon

Making the Weight: Boxing's Lethal Secret

Making the Weight

Andrea Pirlo: I Think Therefore I Play

Andrea Pirlo

Mastermind: How Dave Brailsford Reinvented the Wheel

Mastermind

Henrik, Hairdryers and the Hand of God: Extraordinary Tales from the Press Box

Henrik, Hairdryers and the Hand of God

Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World

Barca

Tee Off

Playing a Round with the Little Pro: A Life in the Game

Playing a Round with the Little Pro

The Timeless Swing

A Swing for Life: Revised and Updated

A Swing for Life

Golf: The Marvelous Mania

Golf

On Par: The Everyday Golfer’s Survival Guide

On Par

My Life in and out of the Rough

Great Golf: Essential Tips from History's Top Golfers

Great Golf

The Legend of Bagger Vance

The Scrambler's Dozen: The 12 shots every Golfer Needs to Shoot Like the Pros

The Scrambler's Dozen

Golf School: The Tuition-Free Tee-to-Green Curriculum from Golf's Finest High End Academy

Golf School

Golfing with God: A Novel of Heaven and Earth

Golfing with God

The Front Nine: Golf's 9 All-Time Greatest Shots

The Front Nine

Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes, Revised and Expanded

Dream Golf

A Son of the Game: A Story of Golf, Going Home, and Sharing Life's Lessons

A Son of the Game

How-To Guides for Athletes & Explorers

Sailing Fundamentals

Supermen: Building Maximum Muscle for a Lifetime

Supermen

101 Strength Training Workouts & Strategies

Mad Scientist Muscle: Build ''Monster'' Mass With Science-Based Training

Mad Scientist Muscle

Wilderness Survival Guide: The Practical Skills You Need For The Great Outdoors

Wilderness Survival Guide

101 Muscle-Shaping Workouts & Strategies for Women

The Big Book of Abs

Soccer For Dummies

SAS Survival Handbook: The Definitive Survival Guide

SAS Survival Handbook

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for Any Distance

Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running

Football For Dummies

Sailing For Dummies

Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense

Chinese Gung Fu

Abs on the Ball: A Pilates Approach to Building Superb Abdominals

Abs on the Ball

Fitness Walking For Dummies

Bicycle!: A Repair & Maintenance Manifesto

Bicycle!

The Backyard Lumberjack

The Swing!: Lose the Fat and Get Fit with This Revolutionary Kettlebell Program

The Swing!

Beginning English Exercises

The Best of Baseball

I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

I Had a Hammer

Rickey & Robinson: The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball

Rickey & Robinson

Babe: The Legend Comes to Life

Babe

Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League

Curveball

October 1964

Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball

Men at Work

Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team

Damn Yankees

Season Ticket

The Summer Game

Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, 18761950

Outsider Baseball

The Unwritten Rules of Baseball

Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?

Summer of '49

The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!: The Game as Umpires See It

The Best Seat in Baseball, But You Have to Stand!

Exercise Tips & Tricks

Evolution: The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted

Evolution

Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier

Total Immersion

101 Get-Lean Workouts and Strategies for Women

Abs on the Ball: A Pilates Approach to Building Superb Abdominals

Abs on the Ball

Genetic Bodybuilding: Ectomorph, Endomorph, Mesomorph Training & Dieting Techniques

Genetic Bodybuilding

The Secrets of Gaining Mass Muscle Made Easy

Boxer's Book of Conditioning & Drilling

Rough Strength Files: 42 Ideas on Low-Tech Strength Training

Rough Strength Files

Specialization Training: Blowing Up Individual Body Parts

Specialization Training

Shaolin Qi Gong: Energy in Motion

Shaolin Qi Gong

Men's Health Your Body Is Your Barbell: No Gym. Just Gravity. Build a Leaner, Stronger, More Muscular You in 28 Days!

Men's Health Your Body Is Your Barbell

Shooting Hoops

Driven from Within

Getting Open: The Unknown Story of Bill Garrett and the Integration of College Basketball

Getting Open

Pistol: A Biography of Pete Maravich

Pistol

Character Driven: Life, Lessons, and Basketball

Character Driven

Loose Balls

Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns

Seven Seconds or Less

Season on the Brink

A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball

A Father First

Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend

Red and Me

When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks

When the Garden Was Eden

Baseball

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All

What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

Jeter Unfiltered

Long Shot

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

Million Dollar Arm: Sometimes to Win, You Have to Change the Game

Million Dollar Arm

They Called Me God: The Best Umpire Who Ever Lived

They Called Me God

As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires

As They See 'Em

Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift

Driving Mr. Yogi

More Than a Season: Building a Championship Culture

More Than a Season

Yogi: The Life & Times of an American Original

Yogi

The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter

The Captain

Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ‘76

Stars and Strikes

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

Throwback: A Big-League Catcher Tells How the Game Is Really Played

Throwback

Core Four: The Heart and Soul of the Yankees Dynasty

Core Four

If These Walls Could Talk: New York Yankees: Stories from the New York Yankees Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box

If These Walls Could Talk

Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s

Big Hair and Plastic Grass

Nolan Ryan: The Making of a Pitcher

Nolan Ryan

Francona: The Red Sox Years

Francona

Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager

Three Nights in August

Ashley M., Scribd Editor

Editor's Choice

An uplifting story...

Take a look at college football through the eyes of Division 1's first woman, Katie Hnida. In spite of the misogyny & discrimination she faces, her story is ultimately uplifting, capturing the joy of kicking a ball through the uprights.

Find out more