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The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business by Wright Thompson

The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business runs 12.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Wright Thompson (about 8.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12.5listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12.5 hours of listening.

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1 hour / day13 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

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What our data says

  • At 12.5 hours, it runs longer than 92% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business is an audiobook by Wright Thompson: a 12.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Wright Thompson, released April 2, 2019, on the Memoirs shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
12.5 hrs
Narrated by
Wright Thompson
Released
April 2, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs
ISBN
9781980036562

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business as an audiobook?

The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business runs 12.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.3 hours.

Is The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business?

The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business is narrated by Wright Thompson.

Is The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.3 hours, saving 4.2 hours.