Cricket Books

[PhoenixFire]

I've just bought Shane Warne: My Complete Illustrated Career, a pretty good one.

[stumpski]

Does he tell of how his mother brought him up on bratwurst, sauerkraut and wiener schnitzel?

[PhoenixFire]

Does he tell of how his mother brought him up on bratwurst, sauerkraut and wiener schnitzel?

That's Austrian IIRC.

[Perm]

That's Austrian IIRC.

Whatever it is, it's good eating.

[PhoenixFire]

Yeah I had a sandwich with it in on Holiday, very nice.

[stumpski]

So email me at james.nixon @ cricketweb.net through that email address

Just e-mailed it to Archie in fact, hope it's OK.

[Matt79]

Got a nice find today in a 2nd hand store - a 1924 print of "Cricket - Old and New" by A.C. MacLaren.

What makes it even nicer is that according to the stamp inside the front page, it was previously the property of the Melbourne Cricket Club, and somebody has taken the time, in beautiful copperplate hand writing to write an index of references to players on one of the blank pages on the back.

The frontispiece is the same pic of Archie Mac as Haigh used on the front cover of "Silent Revolutions", and the subtitle is "A Straight Talk to Young Players"! The downside is that its definitely seen better days, and is now fragile, although not quite falling to pieces...

[neville cardus]

Got a nice find today in a 2nd hand store - a 1924 print of "Cricket - Old and New" by A.C. MacLaren.

What makes it even nicer is that according to the stamp inside the front page, it was previously the property of the Melbourne Cricket Club, and somebody has taken the time, in beautiful copperplate hand writing to write an index of references to players on one of the blank pages on the back.

The frontispiece is the same pic of Archie Mac as Haigh used on the front cover of "Silent Revolutions", and the subtitle is "A Straight Talk to Young Players"! The downside is that its definitely seen better days, and is now fragile, although not quite falling to pieces...

An absolute gem, certainly. I take it that it's Archie's take on cricket history?

[Matt79]

I think so - I've not sat down and had a read yet beyond a couple of quick flicks through.

[archie mac]

An absolute gem, certainly. I take it that it's Archie's take on cricket history?

Got a nice find today in a 2nd hand store - a 1924 print of "Cricket - Old and New" by A.C. MacLaren.

What makes it even nicer is that according to the stamp inside the front page, it was previously the property of the Melbourne Cricket Club, and somebody has taken the time, in beautiful copperplate hand writing to write an index of references to players on one of the blank pages on the back.

The frontispiece is the same pic of Archie Mac as Haigh used on the front cover of "Silent Revolutions", and the subtitle is "A Straight Talk to Young Players"! The downside is that its definitely seen better days, and is now fragile, although not quite falling to pieces...

Yes I have read that, he was not happy with the way young players were using their pads instead of their bats. It is very short with a huge font, I quite enjoyed it. Very surprised you found a copy in a 2nd hand book shop, well done

[neville cardus]

I think so - I've not sat down and had a read yet beyond a couple of quick flicks through.

Please do and lemme know. I'm researching a part of cricket history on which Archie might have an original take.

[archie mac]

Please do and lemme know. I'm researching a part of cricket history on which Archie might have an original take.

I had to read that a couple of times

[archie mac]

I thought I would share what I think might just be the greatest misprint in a cricket book

This comes from Don Bradman's My Cricketing Life published in 1938

"Larwood refused to give in, and I can still see him in my mind's eye glinding towards the stumps.... his silk skirt fluttering ever so slightly in the light cross breeze"


I must have missed it when I read the book, it was pointed out by Crciket book dealer Christopher Saunders

[Matt79]

He was "glinding" was he?

I never realised that when Jardine called for leg-theory bowling, that meant bowling in mini-skirts...

[neville cardus]

I thought I would share what I think might just be the greatest misprint in a cricket book

This comes from Don Bradman's My Cricketing Life published in 1938

"Larwood refused to give in, and I can still see him in my mind's eye glinding towards the stumps.... his silk skirt fluttering ever so slightly in the light cross breeze"

I must have missed it when I read the book, it was pointed out by Crciket book dealer Christopher Saunders

A really lovely bloke, is Mr Saunders. I got Lilley's Twenty-Four Years of Cricket from him while on tour in England last year. I hear now that he's taken custody of Rosenwater's considerable collection.