Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
    Unavailable
    Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
    Unavailable
    Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
    Audiobook20 hours

    Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

    Written by David Halberstam

    Narrated by JD Jackson

    5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Read the ebook instead

    About this audiobook

    From The Breaks of the Game to Summer of '49, David Halberstam has brought the perspective of a great historian, the inside knowledge of a dogged sportswriter, and the love of a fan to bear on some of the most mythic players and teams in the annals of American sport. With Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, he has given himself his greatest challenge and produced his greatest triumph.

    In Playing for Keeps, David Halberstam takes the first full measure of Michael Jordan's epic career, one of the great American stories of our time. A narrative of astonishing power and human drama, brimming with revealing anecdotes and penetrating insights, the audiobook chronicles the forces in Jordan's life that have shaped him into history's greatest basketball player and the larger forces that have converged to make him the most famous living human being in the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 4, 2018
    ISBN9780525643661
    Author

    David Halberstam

    David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, a man whose newspaper reporting and books have helped define the era we live in. He graduated from Harvard in 1955, took his first job on the smallest daily in Mississippi, and then covered the early civil rights struggle for the Nashville Tennessean. He joined The New York Times in 1960, went overseas almost immediately, first to the Congo and then to Vietnam. His early pessimistic dispatches from Vietnam won him the Pulitzer in 1964 at the age of thirty. His last twelve books, starting with The Best and the Brightest and including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, and The Fifties, have all been national bestsellers. Thirty-eight years after Mr. Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam, War in a Time of Peace was the runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in April 2007.

    More audiobooks from David Halberstam

    Related to Playing for Keeps

    Related audiobooks

    Basketball For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Tragic Story Of DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe Add Value To Their Collectibles

      Oct 8, 2021

      As I browsed through Heritage Auction’s spectacular booth at The National in July, I was mesmerized by the many historic artifacts on display. From Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves and robe to Michael Jordan’s shoes and a game-worn Magic Johnson jersey,

      3 min read

    • Article

      Jersey Boys

      Jul 19, 2022

      Jersey Boys
      5 min read

    • Article

      Swish!

      Mar 18, 2023

      Swish!
      4 min read

    • Article

      Colin kaepernick

      Oct 5, 2023

      20 DEAR KAEP, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Needed you aware of my immense gratitude for your sacrifices, for what you’ve done for our collective conscious-ness, for how you’ve transformed my thinking and train with a horde of Jets fans (poor soul

      7 min read

    • Article

      Defining A Different Kind Of Sports Greatness

      Mar 16, 2023

      The greatest athletes throughout sports history are often recognized for clutch performances on the field of competition. Timely play isn’t just a mark of a champion, but also the barometer with which greatness is marketed. However, that sense of app

      4 min read

    • Article

      Air Show

      Dec 1, 2023

      A quarter century has passed since Michael Jordan won his last NBA championship with the Chicago Bulls, a quarter century since his tongue wagging dominance culminated in champagnedoused glory, and we’re still busy dissecting his legacy. In 2013, Wri

      5 min read

    • Article

      Sportswriting: A 2,000-Year History

      Jan 22, 2018

      Sportswriting didn’t start with early 20th-century newspaper columnists talking fast and wearing hats with the word “press” written on the brim. The origins of the genre go way, way back past the historical warning track— hunting stories in pictorial

      12 min read

    • Article

      The 'Best Of' Frank Deford, According To Frank Deford

      May 30, 2017

      It's hard to distill 37 years of Frank Deford's sports commentaries down to a few "best of" pieces. But before he retired, he shared some of his favorites with us and, here, we share them with you.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Sports Book Roundup: Cubs Books In Time For Opening Day And More

      Mar 28, 2018

      "Try Not to Suck" by Bill Chastain and Jesse Rogers; Triumph (304 pages, $25.95) Cubs fans hope the Joe Maddon story isn't finished just yet. They would like to see him add a couple more World Series titles to his tale. However, this new biography sh

      3 min read

    • Article

      Whatever Happened To The Baseball Movie?

      Mar 29, 2023

      The crack of the bat. The roar of the crowd. The green grass and the brown dirt. These are the sights and sounds that bring joy to baseball fans every April, both in person and on the silver screen. Historically, baseball films are released in the sp

      4 min read

    • Article

      Before The Bell

      Jun 24, 2021

      Whoever claimed “history is written by the victors” obviously didn’t know much about professional wrestling. Of course, top guys like Bret Hart and Mick Foley enjoy the privilege of some big megaphones when it comes to telling their respective sides

      8 min read

    • Article

      Cowboy Up

      Feb 4, 2023

      Cowboy Up
      7 min read

    • Article

      Gridiron Greats

      Sep 20, 2022

      Nearly 100 of football’s greatest players and coaches celebrated the enshrinement of the Class of 2022 into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Aug. 5-7. The class honored Tony Boselli, LeRoy Butler, Richard Seymour, Bryant Young and Dick Vermeil as the fi

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Lockup

      Jul 2, 2020

      The Lockup
      4 min read

    • Article

      Baseball READING SEASON

      Nov 20, 2021

      The baseball offseason signals the arrival of the baseball reading season. And there are dozens of dynamic volumes to bridge the gap between the World Series and the date pitchers and catchers report to spring training in mid-February. Subjects range

      11 min read

    • Article

      A Socially Conscious Voice In Sports, Jemele Hill Remains Outspoken In Showtime's New NBA Documentary 'Shut Up And Dribble'

      Nov 5, 2018

      LOS ANGELES - To paraphrase a line often attributed to Oscar Wilde - or, if you'd prefer, Dr. Who - you can always judge a person by the quality of their enemies. By that measure, Jemele Hill and LeBron James reached a rarefied air in the past couple

      5 min read

    • Article

      Beyond The Court

      Apr 27, 2022

      Beyond The Court
      8 min read

    • Article

      Quick Count

      Feb 25, 2021

      Quick Count
      3 min read

    Reviews for Playing for Keeps

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words