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Author
Publisher
Amberley
Pub. Date
2010
Description
During World War Two, a German air raid left seven-year-old Brian Scovell lying in a hospital bed for two years. During this time he read incessantly and listened to commentaries of major sporting events. Emerging with an ambition to be a Fleet Street sports reporter, this book details Brian's long journalistic career.
Author
Publisher
Mainstream
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A historic commentary on Britain and British football in the first half of the 20th century, this autobiography of Charles Buchan informs a new generation of football supporters about a character once synonymous with the game in its more boisterous, yet more innocent days.
Author
Publisher
Aurum
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Best known as the doyen of cricket correspondents, reporting for the 'Daily Telegraph', editing 'The Cricketer' magazine and summarising the day's play for Test Match Special in his mellifluous baritone, E.W. Swanton had a remarkable life. This is his story.
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words. In 'The Great Romantic', award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at Lord's'- he...