Sports & Recreation
Pleasure Cycling
"In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful inform…
Cycling in the Alps
A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…
Adventures of Babe Ruth
The Adventures of Babe Ruth was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network in 1934. Sponsored entirely by Quaker Oats Cereal, each episode runs for 1…
Coffee Break Collection
This is the 27th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read poems, fiction and non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes…
Association Football and How to Play It
An overview of the positions, tactics, and history of association football written by one of the game's early stars. John Cameron was a most…
Camp and Trail
Stewart Edward White was a popular and respected novelist who set his stories on the western frontier and in the wilderness. For his novels …
Phil Hammond's Bad Golf Day
Phil Hammond's Bad Golf Day is a humorous exploration of the complexities and absurdities of golf, one of the most socially divisive sports.…
Baseball Ballads
Grantland Rice, was a sports journalist with several newspapers, although his Sportlights column, in the New York Tribune was what brought h…
My Thirty Years In Baseball
The autobiography of John Joseph McGraw, another one of the "greats" of baseball. McGraw, along with Casey Stengel, has managed t…
Toxophilus
Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argum…
A Ball Player's Career
The biography of one of the greatest players that the game of baseball of his era, in his own words. "Cap" Anson, quite probably b…
Chicago White Sox Baseball on the Radio
Enjoy the thrilling broadcasts of Chicago White Sox baseball from the 1970s. This collection captures the excitement and drama of the games …
New York Yankees Vintage Radio Broadcasts
Enjoy a collection of public domain recordings featuring the thrilling baseball games of the New York Yankees. These vintage radio broadcast…
The Cycle Industry
From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry se…
Pitching in a Pinch
In this book Mathewson is telling the reader of the game as it is played in the Big Leagues.... It’s as good as his pitching and some exciti…
Short Works on Sports
A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The col…
With Axe and Rope in the New Zealand Alps
A autobiographical account of climbs in the New Zealand Alps in the late nineteenth century. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle
Right Off The Bat
A Book of Baseball Ballads covering all aspects of our wonderful pastime. The ballads may seem out of date given some reference to drinking,…
Base-Ball
Base-Ball: How to Become a Player is a brief history of the game of baseball, with an explanation of the rules and positions. During the aud…
The Grantland Rice Story
The Grantland Rice Story is a captivating 15-minute series that brings to life the autobiography of one of America's most important sportswr…