Coffee Break Collection 027 - Sports


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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".

Chapters

Barclay's Bonfire, by Ralph Henry Barbour 14:28 Read by Donald Cummings
Blacktails in the Badlands by Bronson Rumsey 13:47 Read by KevinS
Casey At The Bat 5:40 Read by William Allan Jones
Coursing the Prongbuck by Theodore Roosevelt 13:01 Read by Michele Fry
A cricket bowler by Edward Cracroft Lefroy 1:23 Read by Rapunzelina
The Day of the Race, and The Race from Rowing by R C Lehmann 11:32 Read by Patrick Wallace
On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art by Rudyard Kipling 13:22 Read by Michele Fry
A football song by Anonymous 2:05 Read by Rapunzelina
excerpt from The Girls of Central High at Basketball by Gertrude W. Morrison 10:21 Read by Craig Campbell
Observations on Fencing by Thomas Griffiths 4:44 Read by Newgatenovelist
Robinson's Off-Break by E. B. V. Christian 11:58 Read by KevinS
The Olympic Games by Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, January - June 1906 7:03 Read by Patrick Wallace
fragment of Origin of the Olympic Games at Athens, 1906), by James E. Sullivan 8:05 Read by Piotr Nater
Patriotism and Sport by G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) 10:37 Read by Lynne T
The Ravin' of a Golf Maniac by Martha Michel Martin 3:17 Read by Anita Sloma-Martinez
'Story of Kahanamoku' by Anonymous from New York Times, September 23, 1917 3:38 Read by Colleen McMahon
Trout and Other Fly Fishing by Frances E. Slaughter 17:05 Read by Lynne T
Verses on Games by Rudyard Kipling 4:47 Read by Rapunzelina
The Wooing by Anonymous 2:05 Read by Anita Sloma-Martinez
Wrestling and Football in 1681, Excerpt from Ch. VI., by Walter Besant 3:06 Read by Craig Campbell