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'Lucky' Jim Pleass - The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Paperback)
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'Lucky' Jim Pleass - The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Paperback)
Series: Cricket in Wales, 2
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Discovery Miles 5 230
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Jim Pleass is the last surviving member of Glamorgan's County
Championship winning team of 1948, the first time the Welsh team
won the highest honour in county cricket. The Cardiff-born
multi-talented sportsman, who was also an exceptional footballer
and offered trial games for Cardiff City as a schoolboy, built a
reputation as a solid and reliable team player at a time when
Glamorgan was establishing itself on the first class cricket scene
after the Second World War. In stark contrast to contemporary sport
which is too often dominated by money and celebrity, Jim was a
hard-working professional sportsman typical of his era, who simply
enjoyed the camaraderie and of the game he loved. Yet the man who
was born in Cardiff in 1923 achieved something that only a handful
of the five hundred or so people who have proudly worn the
daffodil-sweater since the Club's formation in 1888, can claim to
have also matched, winning some sixty summers after the Club's
creation their first-ever County Championship title. Jim was a very
lucky man, as the book explains his narrow escape from certain
death when he stormed the Normandy beaches on D day in 1944. If it
wasn't for the over-exuberance of a driver on another landing
craft, Jim would never have graced the cricket field wearing the
daffodil of Glamorgan County Cricket Club.
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