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I see Chris Water's book on Fred Trueman - a triple-award winner - is now out in paperback; if you haven't read it, get it, read it and enjoy..........................
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JG wrote:I'm currently reading the O'Neill book mentioned in that piece, or I would be doing if I had time at the moment- it'll probably have to wait 'til I go on holiday. I read it a couple of years ago & enjoyed it.
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I'm currently reading the O'Neill book mentioned in that piece, or I would be doing if I had time at the moment- it'll probably have to wait 'til I go on holiday.
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Not Yorkshire cricket writing I know but I came across this & thought it may interst some on here: http://www.guardian.co.u...atting?CMP=EMCSPTEML942
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Idle Man wrote:Geoff12 wrote:I am intrigued by the title Get 'em in Sequins. Has anyone read it? For some reason there is little interest in Yorkshire Cricket down here on the South Coast, so I have no-one else to ask. Manliness in Yorkshire Cricket is potentially a great subject.
I am very much looking forward to attending the match next week against Kent. Hope you're still feeling as sunny after the match. Get 'em in sequins - quite a good read I thought, but its focus is very much on a hundred years of changing masculinity and the Yorkshire players are the pegs he uses to hang his thread on. The chapter on FST has very little on him as a fast bowler for instance. If you want a biography of the players concerned it's not the right book, but if you know all you need to about them and fancy something different I'd recommend it. Quite moving in places, particularly on Hedley Verity. Was going to get it for my dad's 90th, but it mentioned both homosexuality and masturbation in the early pages. Then it started going on about emotions........ Thanks Idle Man, I'm interested in Yorkshire Cricket's History already and I'll order this book right now. I thought it might have been a biography of Darren Gough. However from your description this sounds much more interesting. I'll send my reflections on the Kent match when I return home from Canterbury.
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I just received my Playfair 2012 along with Magnificant Seven: Yorkshire's Championship Years (Andrew Collomosse). I'll post a review as soon as I finish it. Alex
In an England cricket eleven, the flesh may be of the South, but the bone is of the North, and the backbone is Yorkshire. (Sir Len Hutton) |
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Geoff12 wrote:I am intrigued by the title Get 'em in Sequins. Has anyone read it? For some reason there is little interest in Yorkshire Cricket down here on the South Coast, so I have no-one else to ask. Manliness in Yorkshire Cricket is potentially a great subject.
I am very much looking forward to attending the match next week against Kent. Hope you're still feeling as sunny after the match. Get 'em in sequins - quite a good read I thought, but its focus is very much on a hundred years of changing masculinity and the Yorkshire players are the pegs he uses to hang his thread on. The chapter on FST has very little on him as a fast bowler for instance. If you want a biography of the players concerned it's not the right book, but if you know all you need to about them and fancy something different I'd recommend it. Quite moving in places, particularly on Hedley Verity. Was going to get it for my dad's 90th, but it mentioned both homosexuality and masturbation in the early pages. Then it started going on about emotions........
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I am intrigued by the title Get 'em in Sequins. Has anyone read it? For some reason there is little interest in Yorkshire Cricket down here on the South Coast, so I have no-one else to ask. Manliness in Yorkshire Cricket is potentially a great subject.
I am very much looking forward to attending the match next week against Kent.
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thanks - some useful and intersting options for the summer hols.
Its bad enough former players writing books on cricket, but now we have Dads of former players writing books about their sons careers as well
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