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Among the Fans["From the Ashes to the Arrows, a Year of Watching the Watchers"] by Patrick Collins
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wisden Sports Writing Ser.
Foinavon: The Story of the Grand National's Biggest Upset by David Owen
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the world's toughest steeplechase. The jumps-racing establishment - and Gregory Peck, the Hollywood ...Show more
Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV by Martin Kelner
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
Television and sport is the ultimate marriage of convenience. The two circled each other warily for a while - sport anxious the sofa-bound might spurn the live product, TV reluctant in a limited-channel world to hand over too much screen time to flannelled fools and muddied oafs. But they got together, ...Show more
Sit Down and Cheer: A History of Sport on TV by Martin Kelner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
Television and sport is the ultimate marriage of convenience. The two circled each other warily for a while - sport anxious the sofa-bound might spurn the live product, TV reluctant in a limited channel world to hand over too much screen time to flannelled fools and muddied oafs. But they got together, ...Show more
The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final by Richard Moore
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's 100 metres at those Olympics is certainly the most infamous in the history of athletics, and more indelibly etched into the consciousness of the spor ...Show more
The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the Olympic 100m Final by Richard Moore
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's 100 metres at those Olympics is certainly the most infamous in the history of athletics, and more indelibly etched into the consciousness of the spor ...Show more
The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India by James Astill
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League - cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment. The Great Tamasha exa ...Show more
The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India by James Astill
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League - cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment. The Great Tamasha exa ...Show more
We'll Get 'Em in Sequins: Manliness, Yorkshire Cricket and the Century That Changed Everything by Max Davidson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
A truly unique and fascinating look at the changing nature of masculinity and manliness, told through the lens of a series of Yorkshire County Cricket Club player portraits through the ages. George Hirst was a man of his time. His apocryphal quotation "We'll get 'em in singles"epitomises his no-fuss ap ...Show more
We'll Get 'em in Sequins by Max Davidson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
A truly unique and fascinating look at the changing nature of masculinity and manliness, told through the lens of a series of Yorkshire County Cricket Club player portraits through the ages. George Hirst was a man of his time. His apocryphal quotation "We'll get 'em in singles" epitomises his no-fuss ap ...Show more
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