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Fred Trueman - The Authorised Biography (Paperback)
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Fred Trueman - The Authorised Biography (Paperback)
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Loot Price R445
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Fred Trueman was so much more than a cricketing legend. ' The
greatest living Yorkshireman' according to Prime Minister Harold
Wilson, he couldn' t help excelling at everything he did, whether
it was as a hostile fast bowler for Yorkshire and England, and the
first man to take 300 Test wickets in a career, or as a fearlessly
outspoken radio summariser for Test Match Special. He was famous
for regularly spluttering that, ' I don' t know what' s going off
out there,' as well as for the amount of swearing he managed to
incorporate into everyday speech. Beloved of cricket crowds, who
filled grounds to witness his belligerent way of playing the game,
and nothing but trouble to the cricket authorities, ' Fiery Fred'
was the epitome of a full-blooded Englishman. But as Chris Waters
reveals in this first full biography, behind the charismatic,
exuberant mask lay a far less self-assured man - terrified even
that his new dog wouldn' t like him - and whose bucolic version of
his upbringing bore no relation to the gritty and impoverished
South Yorkshire mining community where he actually grew up. Drawing
on dozens of new interviews with his Yorkshire colleagues, family
and friends, this life of Fred Trueman will surprise and even
shock, but also confirm the status of an English folk hero.
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