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Short Works on Sports Collection 01

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Casey at the Bat

A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The collection includes pieces on baseball, cricket, lacrosse, cycling, athletics, fishing, polo, fencing, marbles and three kinds of football, by authors including Arnold Bennett, Zane Grey, Banjo Paterson, and P. G. Wodehouse. (Summary by Phil Benson)

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Listen next episodes of Short Works on Sports Collection 01:
A Friendly Game of Football , A Modern Game of Rugby Football , About Cricket, from Danger! And Other Stories , At the Nets, from Mike , Casey's Revenge , Cricket on the Hearth , Cycling, from the Sportswoman's Library Vol 2 , 'Disarming' from The Art of Defence on Foot, with the Broad Sword and Sabre , Far Inland Football , How I keep Fit, by the Champions of Leading Sports from the Strand Magazine 1891 , How M'Dougal Topped the Score , "Marbles" from Healthful Sports for Boys , Nudity of Victor Statues, from Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art , Sailfish - The Atlantic Brother to the Pacific Swordfish , Teams That Have Won the Association Cup , The Geebung Polo Club , The Marathon from The Olympic Games at Athens, 1906 , The Matador of the Five Towns, Chapter 3 , The Original Game, from Lacrosse, the National Game of Canada