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W G Grace
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Author : Anthony Meredith
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2015-10-15
W G Grace written by Anthony Meredith and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-15 with Sports & Recreation categories.
A modern search for the greatest cricketer of all time on the centenary of his death
Cricket
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Author : William Gilbert Grace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Cricket written by William Gilbert Grace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Cricket categories.
Wg Grace
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Author : Robert Low
language : en
Publisher: Metro Publishing
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Wg Grace written by Robert Low and has been published by Metro Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Using contemporary accounts of W.G.'s greatest innings, many for the first time, Robert Low presents a radically new image of the sportsman who was recognised as the pre-eminent athlete of his day.From his emergence as a teenage prodigy to well past his fiftieth year W.G. dominated the game of cricket, taking 2,876 wickets and scoring 54,896 first-class runs in a career lasting an incredible 43 years, from 1865 to 1908. His beard and massive frame made him instantly recognisable wherever he went and his gamesmanship and wit were legendary.
Gilbert
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Author : Charlie Connelly
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-08
Gilbert written by Charlie Connelly and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.
There are few more instantly recognisable figures, from any era, from any walk of life, than W.G. Grace. With his enormous height, beer-barrel girth and immense beard he was - and remains - a caricaturist's dream. Too much so, in many ways. Arguably the finest and most influential cricketer who ever lived and one of the first true celebrities Grace became a persona rather than a person, racketing up unprecedented amounts of runs and wickets while slowly vanishing behind an increasing swirl of myth and apocrypha. Gilbert is the first examination of Grace to dig beneath the surface, blow the fog of fable and explore the man himself, the human being, and ask what he might have thought and felt. Who, in effect, was W.G. Grace? In the year that marks the centenary of Grace's death, Charlie Connelly charts the final years of his life, from his fiftieth birthday celebrations in 1898 to his death at the age of 67 in 1915, through the eyes of Grace himself. In an unusual take on this most eminent Victorian and extraordinary pioneering sportsman, Connelly draws on contemporary documents and accounts to imagine Grace's progress through his final years. It was no quiet dotage either: he played cricket until a year before his death, captained the England curling team and remained an enthusiastic golfer and shooter to the end. He also dealt with bereavement, ill health and was greatly troubled by the gathering clouds of war. He was, in short, a human being as much as a sporting colossus. Combining facts and imagination, Gilbert is an affectionate and beautifully written account of the Champion's later life that comes closer than ever before to giving a sense of the real W.G. Grace behind the mythology; the perennially childlike soul saddled with the weight of genius. To the public he was The Doctor, The Champion and W.G., but to those who knew him best he was simply Gilbert. This is a book about Gilbert.
W G Grace A Life
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Author : Simon Rae
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-09-20
W G Grace A Life written by Simon Rae and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-20 with Sports & Recreation categories.
W. G. Grace burst onto the cricket scene in the 1860s with spectacular force. He dominated the game until the end of the century, and influences it to this day. He was the world's first sporting superstar, rivalled as a public figure only by Gladstone and Queen Victoria herself. His staggering achievements as both batsman and bowler made him the greatest draw cricket had ever known. Though often depicted as an overgrown schoolboy, W. G. was extremely shrewd and ruthlessly exploited the power his immense popularity gave him. A notorious 'shamateur', he amassed great wealth through cricket, while remaining the standard-bearer for the Gentlemen against the Players for forty years. Researched in archives from Grimsby (where Grace once scored 400) to Australia, Simon Rae's new biography offers a radical analysis of Grace's career, and reviews the more controversial aspects of his conduct, including verbal and physical altercations, both on and off the field, and his kidnapping of an Australian cricketer from Lord's. But W. G. Grace: A Life provides more than a fresh look at the cricketer. It focuses on Grace's formative family background; his intensely competitive relations with his two famous brothers, 'E. M.' and Fred; his career as a doctor, and his ambitions and bereavements as a father. Drawing on little-known diaries and letters, and unique access to Grace's own library, Simon Rae builds up a convincing psychological portrait of the man behind the most famous beard in English history.
W G Grace Ate My Pedalo
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Author : Alan Tyers
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-16
W G Grace Ate My Pedalo written by Alan Tyers and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-16 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Freddie Flintoff and W.G. Grace: Together at last! W.G. Grace Ate My Pedalo is a spoof 1896 periodical from The Wisden Cricketer archives that looks at cricketing events of 2010 through a Victorian lens. Funny, irreverent and lavishly illustrated, the book draws inspiration from the exuberant sporting papers of the Victorian era to lampoon England cricketers new and old. From Queen Victoria's views on women's cricket to Freddie Flintoff's heroic defiance of the Temperance Movement, no figure - historical or contemporary - is safe. A comedy cricket book of wit, intelligence and cheek that will appeal to cricket fans of all ages, be they members of the MCC or the Barmy Army.
Amazing Grace
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Author : Richard Tomlinson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-09-03
Amazing Grace written by Richard Tomlinson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On a sunny afternoon in May 1868, nineteen-year-old Gilbert Grace stood in a Wiltshire field, wondering why he was playing cricket against the Great Western Railway Club. A batting genius, 'W. G.' should have been starring at Lord's in the grand opening match of the season. But MCC did not want to elect this humble son of a provincial doctor. W. G's career was faltering before it had barely begun. Grace finally forced his way into MCC and over the next three decades, millions came to watch him - not just at Lord's, but across the British Empire and beyond. Only W. G. could boast a fan base that stretched from an American Civil War general and the Prince of Wales's mistress to the children who fingered his coat-tails as he walked down the street, just to say 'I touched him'. The public never knew the darker story behind W. G.'s triumphal progress. Accused of avarice, W. G. was married to the daughter of a bankrupt. Disparaged as a simpleton, his subversive mind recast how to play sport - thrillingly hard, pushing the rules, beating his opponents his own way. In Amazing Grace, Richard Tomlinson unearths a life lived so far ahead of his times that W. G. is still misunderstood today. For the first time, Tomlinson delves into long-buried archives in England and Australia to reveal the real W. G: a self-made, self-destructive genius, at odds with the world and himself.
W G Grace
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Author : Bernard Darwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934
W G Grace written by Bernard Darwin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with Cricket categories.
W G Grace
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Author : Eric C. Midwinter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
W G Grace written by Eric C. Midwinter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Cricket players categories.
Frederick Lillywhite S Cricket Scores And Biographies From 1746 To 1826 1841 To 1848 Compiled By A Haygarth Continued As Arthur Haygarth S Cricket Scores And Biographies From 1855 To
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Author : Frederick Lillywhite
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
Frederick Lillywhite S Cricket Scores And Biographies From 1746 To 1826 1841 To 1848 Compiled By A Haygarth Continued As Arthur Haygarth S Cricket Scores And Biographies From 1855 To written by Frederick Lillywhite and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with categories.