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Mystery Spinner
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Author : Gideon Haigh
language : en
Publisher: Aurum
Release Date : 2002-04-25
Mystery Spinner written by Gideon Haigh and has been published by Aurum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-25 with Sports & Recreation categories.
It is no mystery that today the name of Jack Iverson is virtually unknown. For most of his life he was an unexceptional estate agent in Australia. He died in obscurity, by his own hand, at the age of only 58. He was a clumsy fielder, and a hopeless batsman. But for four years he was the best spin bowler in the world. The story of Jack Iverson is one of the most remarkable in the history of cricket. ‘Every now and then,’ wrote one journalist, ‘there comes a man who can do the right thing the wrong way round.’ Iverson took up cricket, at the advanced age of 31, as capriciously as he left it – joining a club 3rd XI in Melbourne one day, and instantly announcing himself as the most prodigious and improbable spinner of a cricket ball. Using a unique technique he appears to have perfects with a ping-pong ball during wartime service in Papua New Guinea, he doubled back his middle finger and found he could bowl leg breaks, top spinners and googlies, every one dropped on a perfect length and impossible to pick. Within four years he was bowling the Australian Test side to victory over England in the Ashes series of 1950-51. Then, in his moment of triumph, he retired from international cricket, and was never the same bowler again. Mystery Spinner is more than that beautifully written life of an elusive and forgotten hero who, after his brief burst of celebrity, has left strangely little trace in posterity. It is also the utterly compelling story of Gideon Haigh’s quest to solve the enduring riddle of Jack Iverson’s life – a quest which led him across Australia following tenuous clues in school registers and county records. And above all it is a moving study, for an age that presumes sporting prowess to be the ultimate definition of personal identity, of how skill is only half the battle in sport, and how it takes an extraordinary individual to cope successfully with extraordinary achievement.
Mystery Spinner
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Author : Haigh Gideon
language : en
Publisher: Aurum Press
Release Date : 2013-05-16
Mystery Spinner written by Haigh Gideon and has been published by Aurum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-16 with Cricket categories.
It is no mystery that today the name of Jack Iverson is virtually unknown. For most of his life he was an unexceptional estate agent in Australia. He died in obscurity, by his own hand, at the age of only 58. He was a clumsy fielder, and a hopeless batsman. But for four years he was the best spin bowler in the world. The story of Jack Iverson is one of the most remarkable in the history of cricket. ‘Every now and then,’ wrote one journalist, ‘there comes a man who can do the right thing the wrong way round.’ Iverson took up cricket, at the advanced age of 31, as capriciously as he left it – joining a club 3rd XI in Melbourne one day, and instantly announcing himself as the most prodigious and improbable spinner of a cricket ball. Using a unique technique he appears to have perfects with a ping-pong ball during wartime service in Papua New Guinea, he doubled back his middle finger and found he could bowl leg breaks, top spinners and googlies, every one dropped on a perfect length and impossible to pick. Within four years he was bowling the Australian Test side to victory over England in the Ashes series of 1950-51. Then, in his moment of triumph, he retired from international cricket, and was never the same bowler again. Mystery Spinner is more than that beautifully written life of an elusive and forgotten hero who, after his brief burst of celebrity, has left strangely little trace in posterity. It is also the utterly compelling story of Gideon Haigh’s quest to solve the enduring riddle of Jack Iverson’s life – a quest which led him across Australia following tenuous clues in school registers and county records. And above all it is a moving study, for an age that presumes sporting prowess to be the ultimate definition of personal identity, of how skill is only half the battle in sport, and how it takes an extraordinary individual to cope successfully with extraordinary achievement.
Mystery Spinner
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Author : Gideon Haigh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Mystery Spinner written by Gideon Haigh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Cricket players categories.
An estate agent's son, Jack Iverson went to boarding school, became a jackaroo, fought in World War II. Then, in 1946 when he was thirty-one, he took up cricket. Four years later he was the best spin bowler in the world. Iverson bowled like no man before him - his technique derived from wartime games of French cricket with a table tennis ball and a ruler. In the 1950-51 Ashes series, he spun Australia to victory, starred in newsreels, and even had a racehorse named after him. In his moment of triumph Iverson quit Test cricket and eventually died in tragic circumstances, believing he was a forgotten man. Mystery Spinner is a moving biography of perhaps the most original and elusive character in Australian sporting history.
Mystery Spinner
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Author : Gideon Haigh
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2018-01-02
Mystery Spinner written by Gideon Haigh and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘[An] unconventional journey...brilliantly documented.’ Courier Mail ‘So you want to know something about this funny old bowling of mine. Well, there’s nothing to it. It’s really very simple—in fact, at times, I do not know much about it myself.’ In 1950, aged in his mid-thirties, ‘tall, shy, shambling’ Jack Iverson burst forth from obscurity in suburban Melbourne, ‘bowled like no man before’ and became a national sensation, then faded from view almost as swiftly. He died in obscurity, in tragic circumstances. In the enthralling Mystery Spinner, first published in 1999, one of the world’s best cricket writers goes in search of an enigma: an ordinary man in whom lurked the extraordinary. Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for three decades, writing mainly about sport and business. He is the author of more than thirty books, among them the award-winning On Warne, Certain Admissions and Stroke of Genius. He lives in Melbourne. ‘One of the best cricket biographies I have ever read.’ Wisden Cricket Monthly ‘Even if you don’t care for the game you might enjoy it...Not your standard sporting biography.’ Guardian ‘A delight, a gripping (no pun intended) read, and an object lesson to anyone tempted to try their hand at biography.’ ESPN cricinfo ‘Magnificent.’ Roar
Mathscape
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Author : Creative Publications, Inc
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Mathscape written by Creative Publications, Inc and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Mathematics categories.
Exploring Statistics In The Elementary Grades
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Author : Carolyn Bereska
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Exploring Statistics In The Elementary Grades written by Carolyn Bereska and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Education categories.
This book helps teachers acquire the knowledge they need to implement and teach a "data strand" in the math curriculum (as required by the NCTM standards). This self-study, inservice guide gives teachers the background they need in the qualitative literacy plus a resource bank of developmentally appropriate activities hey can use to introduce these concepts and skills to elementary-aged children.
Moon Spinners
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Author : Sally Goldenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-04-27
Moon Spinners written by Sally Goldenbaum and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-27 with Fiction categories.
Readers can't help but get entangled in this USA Today bestselling series. Nell Endicott and the other Seaside Knitters are helping their friend Gracie Santos open the Lazy Lobster and Soup Café on Pelican Pier. They do however take a break to attend a special yacht club dinner held to honor Gracie's aunt-wearing their finest knitting creations. Under the full moon, a local scuba dive club witnesses a blood-red Ferrari flying off a cliff and onto the granite rocks below. Gracie's aunt was behind the wheel, and it was murder. Gossip builds, rumors circulate, and the Seaside Knitters try to figure out a killer's strange pattern...
Chance Encounters
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Release Date : 1995
Chance Encounters written by and has been published by Heinemann Educational Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Education categories.
Students from grades six and seven conduct experiment with number cube, coin, and spinner games to investigate such questions as: which game gives you a better chance of winning? Why does the same game get different results? Hands-on experience builds an understanding of randomness and probability.
Back Spin
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Author : Harlan Coben
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 2009-07-22
Back Spin written by Harlan Coben and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-22 with Fiction categories.
“Another winner . . . Pungent observations, indelibly drawn characters and a twisting, surprise-laden plot.”—Atlanta Journal and Constitution Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters’ motel—and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn't. Suddenly Myron finds him self surrounded by blue bloods, criminals, and liars. And as one family's darkest secrets explode into murder, Myron finds out just how rough this game can get. In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction—Myron Bolitar—a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance. “Sharp plotting and emotional density, as well as nonstop wisecracks.”—Publishers Weekly
Class List
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Author : Salem Public Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Class List written by Salem Public Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal) categories.