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'Lucky' Jim Pleass - The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Paperback) Loot Price: R523
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'Lucky' Jim Pleass - The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Paperback): Andrew Hignell

'Lucky' Jim Pleass - The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Paperback)

Andrew Hignell

Series: Cricket in Wales, 2

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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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Imprint: St Davids Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cricket in Wales, 2
Release date: April 2014
Authors: Andrew Hignell
Dimensions: 234 x 165 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 76
Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 978-1-902719-36-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Cricket
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 1-902719-36-0
Barcode: 9781902719368

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