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Author : TIM. BROOKS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781801506977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)
Download or read book BATMAKER OF COPENHAGEN written by TIM. BROOKS and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Sandford
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075099276X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Final Innings written by Christopher Sandford and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The declaration of war against Germany on 3 September 1939 brought an end to the second (and as yet, final) Golden Age of English cricket. Over 200 first-class English players signed up to fight in that first year; 52 never came back. In many ways, the summer of 1939 was the end of innocence. Using unpublished letters, diaries and memoirs, Christopher Sandford recreates that last summer, looking at men like George Macaulay, who took a wicket with his first ball in Test cricket but was struck down while serving with the RAF in 1940; Maurice Turnbull, the England all-rounder who fell during the Normandy landings; and Hedley Verity, who still holds cricketing records, but who died in the invasion of Sicily. Few English cricket teams began their first post-war season without holding memorial ceremonies for the men they had lost: The Final Innings pays homage not only to these men, but to the lost innocence, heroism and human endurance of the age.
Author : Dan Waddell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780593072615
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Field of Shadows written by Dan Waddell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent. And Berlin in 1937 was not a time to be going against the Fuhrer's wishes. But hot on the heels of the 1936 Olympics, an enterprising cricket fanatic of enormous bravery, Felix Menzel, somehow persuaded his Nazi leaders to invite an English team to play his motley band of part-timers. That team was the Gentlemen of Worcestershire, an ill-matched group of mavericks, minor nobility, ex-county cricketers, rich businessmen and callow schoolboys - led by former Worcestershire CC skipper Major Maurice Jewell. Ordered 'not to lose' by the MCC, Jewell and his men entered the 'Garden of Beasts' to play two unofficial Test matches against Germany. Against a backdrop of repression, brutality and sporadic gunfire, the Gents battled searing August heat, matting pitches, the skill and cunning of Menzel, and opponents who didn't always adhere to the laws and spirit of the game. The tour culminated in a match at the very stadium which a year before had witnessed one of sport's greatest spectacles and a sinister public display of Nazi might. Despite the shadow cast by the cataclysmic conflict that was shortly to engulf them, Dan Waddell's vivid and detailed account of the Gentlemen of Worcestershire's 1937 Berlin tour is a story of triumph- of civility over barbarity, of passion over indifference and hope over despair.
Author : Simon Hughes
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0552775061
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (527 download)
Download or read book And God Created Cricket written by Simon Hughes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. From its earliest origins in the sixteenth century (or an early version played by shepherds called creag in the 1300s), through the formation of the MCC and the opening of Lord's cricket ground in 1787, to the spread of county cricket in the next century, when the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was first published and the Ashes series was born, this simple sport of bat and ball has captured the imagination of the masses. Throughout its 500-year history, cricket has been a mirror for society as a whole, reflecting the changes that have brought us from the quintessential village green to Freddie Flintoff's pedalo, from W G Grace to Monty Panesar, via a fair number of eccentrics, heroes and downright villains. William Hill Award-winning writer Simon Hughes, no mean player himself, has lived and breathed cricket his whole life and now takes his analytical skills and typically irreverent eye to charting the history of English cricket. But this is no dry, dusty tome. It is the story of the mad characters who inhabit the game, the extraordinary lengths people will go to to watch and play it, the tale of a national obsession. It debunks the myth of cricket sportsmanship, showing the origins of sledging and match-fixing in centuries of subterfuge, corruption and violence. And it takes us beyond sport, to the heart of what it really means to be English.
Author : Michael Calvin
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1785319256
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Whose Game Is It Anyway? written by Michael Calvin and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football has never seemed so distant from its fans. Many have been alienated by the greed and shameless self-interest of the Premier League, and no one can predict how the global game will look post-pandemic. In Whose Game Is It Anyway?, Sunday Times best-selling author Michael Calvin searches for a reason to believe. Written at the height of the Covid-19 crisis, the book is a thought-provoking, deeply personal account of the role sport - and particularly football - plays in everyday life. Part memoir, part manifesto, it takes the reader on a tour of the world's greatest sporting occasions and into its outposts in sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon Basin and the Southern Ocean. Drawn from Calvin's experience as an award-winning sportswriter, covering every major sports event over 40 years in more than 80 countries, it offers first-hand insight into such icons as Muhammad Ali, Maradona and Sir Bobby Charlton. With settings ranging from a jungle clearing to a township in apartheid South Africa, this is sport as you've never seen it before.
Author : Marvin Close
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781801500487
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book ''Hope You Die of Cancer" written by Marvin Close and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the inside story of non-league football, as told by a player with over a decade's experience in the Conference and National Leagues. A tale of financial struggles and big sacrifices, it explores the dust-ups, bust-ups, backhanders and betting scandals of a world far, far away from the pampered Premier League.
Author : Roger Lewis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571210893
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Charles Hawtrey, 1914-1988 written by Roger Lewis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a small masterpiece of biographical investigation, and fitting testament to a comic genius whose place in British cultural history is now assured. Charles Hawtrey, the skinny one with the granny glasses, was everybody's favourite in the Carry Ons - but who exactly was he? Up to now the man has remained a mystery. Examining Hawtrey's origins as a child star and performer in revue and the Will Hay films, this wonderful little book looks at his career in radio and television, and then to the sad and slow decline of a belligerent recluse on the Kent coast. The high camp exuberance of his acting gave way to bitterness and alcoholism and if you asked Hawtrey for an autograph he'd be more likely to call the police instead.Roger Lewis's short life of Hawtrey opens out like a Chinese box to address such issues as the nature of fame, neglect, loss, sexual confusion, Drambuie, betrayal, marine bandsmen, and fine cambric knickers trimmed with lace and blue ribbon. Its moral would seem to be that you don't necessarily turn out as the person you thought you'd become.
Author : Christopher Sandford
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750961988
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Final Over written by Christopher Sandford and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2015 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award. Shortlisted for the Cross British Sports Book of the Year 2015 (Cricket category). August 1914 brought an end to the 'Golden Age' of English cricket. At least 210 professional cricketers (out of a total of 278 registered) signed up to fight, of whom thirty-four were killed. However, that period and those men were far more than merely statistics: here we follow in intimate detail not only the cricketers of that fateful last summer before the war, but also the simple pleasures and daily struggles of their family lives and the whole fabric of English social life as it existed on the eve of that cataclysm: the First World War. With unprecedented access to personal and war diaries, and other papers, Sandford expertly recounts the stories of such greats as Hon. Lionel Tennyson, as he moves virtually overnight from the round of Chelsea and Mayfair parties into the front line at the Marne; the violin-playing bowler Colin Blythe, who asked to be moved up to a front-line unit at Passchendaele, following the death in action of his brother, with tragic consequences; and the widely popular Hampshire amateur player Robert Jesson, whose sometimes comic, frequently horrific and always enthralling experiences of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign are vividly brought to life. The Final Over is undoubtedly a gripping, moving and fully human account of this most poignant summer of the twentieth century, both on and off the field of play.
Author : Philip Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785319952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book The Colours of Cricket written by Philip Brown and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colours of Cricket showcases the finest photos of award-winning cricket photographer Philip Brown. In a prestigious 30-year career, Brown has captured 250 Test matches, numerous World Cups and other competitions around the world. Growing up in sports-mad Australia, he fell in love with cricket and photography at a young age and has spent most of his life shooting some of the most memorable moments in the history of the game and the characters who made them. This beautiful book features eye-catching images of some of the biggest names in cricket - stars such as Shane Warne, Brian Lara, Kevin Pietersen, Steve Waugh and Sachin Tendulkar. But beyond the celebrities Philip also has an eye for the people and places he has seen along the way. The Colours of Cricket documents the changing face of the sport over five decades, taking us on a nostalgic trip through time. Featuring more than 330 of Brown's favourite images, this is a stunning pictorial celebration that every cricket fan will treasure.
Author : Tim Brooks
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781785316395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book A Corner of Every Foreign Field written by Tim Brooks and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Corner of Every Foreign Field is an innovative and thought-provoking take on the history of cricket, looking beyond the scorecards to the pivotal issues of class, politics and imperialism that have shaped the game today. It charts how cricket has vied with football for power, commercial muscle and global reach, growing from a simple boys' game in England to a modern worldwide sport. In exploring cricket's evolution, Tim Brooks calls on the views and anecdotes of greats like W. G. Grace, Don Bradman, Viv Richards and Virat Kohli. Along the way, he peers deep into the game's soul and poses questions on behalf of every cricket fan. Is cricket truly global? Why did the game take root in some countries but not in others? What are the threats and opportunities for the sport? Who are the next cricket superpowers? How do you strike a balance between honouring tradition and reforming to capture the imagination of future generations? Written by an expert in the global development of cricket, the book sets out a unique vision for the future.
Author : Carl Wilkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785315602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)
Download or read book An A to Z of Football Collectibles written by Carl Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of football trade cards, an epic saga of 1,000 brands and myriad collections. The A-Z traces the earliest cards and stickers--British inventions, both--through a century of sports cards from tobacco cards to Panini stickers, via everything that came in between: footballers issued with chewing gum and sweet cigarettes, lucky bag mementos, football teams cut from packets of tea, and many more. It chronicles the epoch of our forefathers and the very first football cards, dating back to the 1880s, followed by the era of their children and the earliest stickers--and so the rise of cigarette cards and paper soccer star adhesives. These days, along with our Panini stickers and trading cards, we appreciate these vintage treasures not only for their beauty but also for their value. Fond recollections of childhood passions past and present will warm hearts, while enchanting galleries of rarely seen cards will captivate football fans and collectors alike. Incorporating a guide to values, the A-Z is priceless.
Author : Richard Buxton
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781785316692
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Fine Margins written by Richard Buxton and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fine Margins is the definitive story of how Manchester City and Liverpool became rivals across English and world football. For over 50 years, these two clubs from opposite ends of the M62 have been perennial thorns in each other's side. Countless managers, players and directors have carried what Bill Shankly started into the modern era.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Solicitors' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781801501149
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Radical Football written by Steve Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Church
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781785319884
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Dead Man Running written by Mark Church and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description to come.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Gardener's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin Parkinson
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781785311475
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Then Came Massacre written by Justin Parkinson and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sussex and England superstar Maurice Tate's story is one of triumph and fame, controversy and tragedy. In the 1920s and 1930s, the all-rounder was the world's most popular cricketer, famed for his brilliant bowling and broad smile unlike his infamous cricketing father, whose costly error he more than repaid. In his day, Tate's enormous feet were the subject of a music-hall song, his extra pace considered "magical;" he's now recognized as the first proper "seam" bowler. He took almost 2800 first-class wickets and thrilled crowds with rapid-fire sixes and centuries. But along the way he suffered a nervous breakdown at the Bodyline series, and threw beer over Douglas Jardine. After a bitter sacking by Sussex, he became a pub landlord and died in poverty. Recently voted Sussex's greatest ever player, Tate doesn't figure in any more widespread Hall of Fame. It's time to remember this forgotten great of England cricket."
