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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". (2 hr 42 min)

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