Coffee Break Collection 27 - Sports
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20 chapters · 2 h 42 min · English
Read by Donald Cummings, KevinS, William Allan Jones, Michele Fry, Rapunzelina, Patrick Wallace and others
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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
1 Barclay's Bonfire, by Ralph Henry Barbour 14 min 2 Blacktails in the Badlands by Bronson Rumsey 14 min 3 Casey At The Bat 6 min 4 Coursing the Prongbuck by Theodore Roosevelt 13 min 5 A cricket bowler by Edward Cracroft Lefroy 1 min 6 The Day of the Race, and The Race from Rowing by R C Lehmann 12 min 7 On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art by Rudyard Kipling 13 min 8 A football song by Anonymous 2 min 9 excerpt from The Girls of Central High at Basketball by Gertrude W. Morrison 10 min 10 Observations on Fencing by Thomas Griffiths 5 min 11 Robinson's Off-Break by E. B. V. Christian 12 min 12 The Olympic Games by Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, January - June 1906 7 min 13 fragment of Origin of the Olympic Games at Athens, 1906), by James E. Sullivan 8 min 14 Patriotism and Sport by G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) 11 min 15 The Ravin' of a Golf Maniac by Martha Michel Martin 3 min 16 'Story of Kahanamoku' by Anonymous from New York Times, September 23, 1917 4 min 17 Trout and Other Fly Fishing by Frances E. Slaughter 17 min 18 Verses on Games by Rudyard Kipling 5 min 19 The Wooing by Anonymous 2 min 20 Wrestling and Football in 1681, Excerpt from Ch. VI., by Walter Besant 3 min
