Cricket Books

[Dave Gregory]

Originally Posted by archie mac

He has just released Bradman's Invincibles 'the inside story of the epic 1948 Ashes tour

You have got to be kidding me. How many more books can this guy get published on the back of his brief relationship with Bradman?

[archie mac]

Originally Posted by Dave Gregory

You have got to be kidding me. How many more books can this guy get published on the back of his brief relationship with Bradman?

Maybe Bradman gave him a secret interview about is team

[neville cardus]

Originally Posted by archie mac

He has just released Bradman's Invincibles 'the inside story of the epic 1948 Ashes tour

I think that I'll be happy to keep my knowledge confined to the outside story.

[neville cardus]

Originally Posted by Dave Gregory

Gideon's review was pretty damning (but on the mark). He actually sent it through to me at one stage when we were discussing something (can't remember what now) and the subject of Perry came up.
Having said that, I hope that Gideon doesn't review "The Gregorys" if it ever comes up. He's a pretty harsh judge

Doubtless he evaluates others' work by the standards of his own, which, while not entirely fair, is understandable.

[neville cardus]

Originally Posted by Dave Gregory

You have got to be kidding me. How many more books can this guy get published on the back of his brief relationship with Bradman?

There is an amusing yarn in the final, most readable chapter of The Don. Posing for a picture with his biographer, and stubbornly refusing to humour an anguished photographer, Bradman wears a dour and decidedly unphotogenic expression. Things look desperate until Perry pipes up with something along the lines of "Come on, Don! You're about to be in a photo with Australia's foremost writer!" The great man promptly breaks into a paroxysm of mirth, and the camera clicks contentedly.

[neville cardus]

Originally Posted by archie mac

Maybe Bradman gave him a secret interview about is team

Not knowing as much about Perry's double-dealing as I do now, I thought when Bradman's Best first appeared that Hanif's claims were outrageous. Needless to say, I now have my doubts. Do you believe that Perry fabricated it?

[Dave Gregory]

Originally Posted by neville cardus

There is an amusing yarn in the final, most readable chapter of The Don. Posing for a picture with his biographer, and stubbornly refusing to humour an anguished photographer, Bradman dons a dour and decidedly unphotogenic expression. Things look desperate until Perry pipes up with something along the lines "Come on, Don! You're about to be in a photo with Australia's foremost writer!" The great man breaks into a paroxysm of mirth, and the camera clicks contentedly.

[SJS]

How does this guy live down such acute and wide-spread cynicism about his claims about the credibility of what he writes ?

[Dave Gregory]

Originally Posted by SJS

How does this guy live down such acute and wide-spread cynicism about his claims about the credibility of what he writes ?

On a big pile of cash. Any cricket book with Bradman in the title (particularly from a major publisher) will sell well, regardless of the quality.

[SJS]

Originally Posted by Dave Gregory

On a big pile of cash. Any cricket book with Bradman in the title (particularly from a major publisher) will sell well, regardless of the quality.

I can believe that. I have this lovely friend in Australia who keeps sending me Bradman books. All my Bradman books except my first copy on The Art of Cricket, Brightly Fades the Don and A Farewell to Cricket are presents from him.

[archie mac]

Originally Posted by neville cardus

Not knowing as much about Perry's double-dealing as I do now, I thought when Bradman's Best first appeared that Hanif's claims were outrageous. Needless to say, I now have my doubts. Do you believe that Perry fabricated it?

I spoke to Mr Haigh and he had no doubt that he made it all up

But I have also met Mr Perry and I think it is the truth, or he conned me

Was quite a nice fellow if the truth be told

[SJS]

Originally Posted by archie mac

I spoke to Mr Haigh and he had no doubt that he made it all up

But I have also met Mr Perry and I think it is the truth, or he conned me

Was quite a nice fellow if the truth be told

It is really great audacity if he really lied about so much. Though I do find it tough to believe that Bradman would give a list and yet act 'coy' about having it put to print in his own life time. That wasn't like him.

[archie mac]

Originally Posted by SJS

It is really great audacity if he really lied about so much. Though I do find it tough to believe that Bradman would give a list and yet act 'coy' about having it put to print in his own life time. That wasn't like him.

Perry wrote that Bradman was worried about the amount of mail it would generate

Perry also said that he had been contacted about having his book on Bradman turned into a movie, but declined because he did not want to cause the Don more correspondence work

[SJS]

Originally Posted by archie mac

Perry wrote that Bradman was worried about the amount of mail it would generate

Perry also said that he had been contacted about having his book on Bradman turned into a movie, but declined because he did not want to cause the Don more correspondence work

I know but do you find that plausible.

Don would surely also think that it would generate a controversy whether he actually did nominate those sides. He was perceptive enough on such matters.

[Dave Gregory]

Originally Posted by archie mac

Was quite a nice fellow if the truth be told

I've never met him, but I heard someone else say much the same thing. He is evidently a good after dinner speaker and quite entertaining.

However, a number of our better writers have said that the reason they are most pissed off with Perry is the fact that he took advantage of an old, sick (and ultimately dying) Bradman and has conveniently chosen to only publish after Bradman's death (by which point no-one could actually ask Bradman about the truthfulness of Perry's claims).