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".
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Episodes
Barclay's Bonfire, by Ralph Henry Barbour
Episode 1 · 14:28
Blacktails in the Badlands by Bronson Rumsey
Episode 2 · 13:47
Casey At The Bat
Episode 3 · 5:40
Coursing the Prongbuck by Theodore Roosevelt
Episode 4 · 13:01
A cricket bowler by Edward Cracroft Lefroy
Episode 5 · 1:23
The Day of the Race, and The Race from Rowing by R C Lehmann
Episode 6 · 11:32
On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art by Rudyard Kipling
Episode 7 · 13:22
A football song by Anonymous
Episode 8 · 2:05
excerpt from The Girls of Central High at Basketball by Gertrude W. Morrison
Episode 9 · 10:21
Observations on Fencing by Thomas Griffiths
Episode 10 · 4:44
Robinson's Off-Break by E. B. V. Christian
Episode 11 · 11:58
The Olympic Games by Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, January - June 1906
Episode 12 · 7:03
fragment of Origin of the Olympic Games at Athens, 1906), by James E. Sullivan
Episode 13 · 8:05
Patriotism and Sport by G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Episode 14 · 10:37
The Ravin' of a Golf Maniac by Martha Michel Martin
Episode 15 · 3:17
'Story of Kahanamoku' by Anonymous from New York Times, September 23, 1917
Episode 16 · 3:38
Trout and Other Fly Fishing by Frances E. Slaughter
Episode 17 · 17:05
Verses on Games by Rudyard Kipling
Episode 18 · 4:47
The Wooing by Anonymous
Episode 19 · 2:05
Wrestling and Football in 1681, Excerpt from Ch. VI., by Walter Besant