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Coffee Break Collection 27 - Sports

This is the 27th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read poems, fiction and non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less. In honor of the Super Bowl, the subject for this collection is "Sports". (2 hr 42 min)

Chapters

01 - Barclay's Bonfire, by Ralph Henry Barbour

14:28

02 - Blacktails in the Badlands by Bronson Rumsey

13:46

03 - Casey At The Bat

5:39

04 - Coursing the Prongbuck by Theodore Roosevelt

13:00

05 - A cricket bowler by Edward Cracroft Lefroy

1:23

06 - The Day of the Race, and The Race from Rowing by R C Lehmann

11:32

07 - On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art by Rudyard Kipling

13:22

08 - A football song by Anonymous

2:04

09 - excerpt from The Girls of Central High at Basketball by Gertrude W. Morris…

10:21

10 - Observations on Fencing by Thomas Griffiths

4:44

11 - Robinson's Off-Break by E. B. V. Christian

11:58

12 - The Olympic Games by Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, January - June…

7:02

13 - fragment of Origin of the Olympic Games at Athens, 1906), by James E. Sull…

8:04

14 - Patriotism and Sport by G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

10:37

15 - The Ravin' of a Golf Maniac by Martha Michel Martin

3:17

16 - 'Story of Kahanamoku' by Anonymous from New York Times, September 23, 1917

3:37

17 - Trout and Other Fly Fishing by Frances E. Slaughter

17:05

18 - Verses on Games by Rudyard Kipling

4:47

19 - The Wooing by Anonymous

2:04

20 - Wrestling and Football in 1681, Excerpt from Ch. VI., by Walter Besant

3:05