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Just A Few Lines... - the unseen letters and memorabilia of Brian Close (Hardcover)
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Just A Few Lines... - the unseen letters and memorabilia of Brian Close (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R520
Discovery Miles 5 200
You Save R108 (17%)
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Brian Close is a true sporting icon: schoolboy cricket and football
prodigy, youngest ever England selection, played for England in 22
Tests over four successive decades, best win ratio of any England
captain ever, unfairly sacked by Yorkshire (about which the
protests of Yorkshire supporters are heard even now), loved a
flutter on the horses, hair-raising driver and, through it all, the
most likeable and popular of men. It was not until after Brian
Close's death in September 2015 that either David Warner or Ron
Deaton - or anyone else for that matter - had even the remotest
idea that the subject matter for this book ever existed. Only when
the scores of letters which Brian wrote in the early stages of his
career to lifelong friend, John Anderson, surfaced did it become
apparent that they were of major historical significance in
highlighting in great detail the day-to-day events of one of
cricket's best known personalities. To many, they will also be of
geographical interest as the letters and their envelopes show
exactly which hotels he stayed in while playing first-class cricket
in this country and in Australia and Pakistan. The details
contained in them are a graphic reminder of just how gifted a
sportsman Brian was, not only on a cricket field but when
participating in a multitude of other sports including soccer (on
the books of Leeds United, Arsenal and Bradford City),golf, boxing,
swimming and shooting to name but a few. It is over 70 years since
the first letters to John Anderson were penned and it is
extraordinary that they and all of the rest have survived the
passage of time. A remarkable set of circumstances led to them
being seen by Warner and Deaton and their astonishment upon sifting
through them was all the greater because there had never even been
the slightest suggestion that letter writing formed any part of
Brian's make-up. The letters, the autograph books which he filled
on John's behalf, and the other memorabilia contained within these
pages are part of a much wider collection which is now in the hands
of the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation. The material selected for this
book will surprise and enthral readers..
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