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Connie - The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine (Paperback)
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Connie - The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine (Paperback)
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Winner of the MCC Book of the Year Award His father was a
first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave. Born in rural
Trinidad in 1901, Learie Constantine was the most dynamic all-round
cricketer of his age (1928-1939) when he played Test cricket for
the West Indies and club cricket for Nelson. Few who saw
Constantine in action would ever forget the experience. As well as
the cricketing genius that led to Constantine being described as
'the most original cricketer of his time', Connie illuminates the
world that he grew up in, a place where the memories of slavery
were still fresh and where a peculiar, almost obsessive, devotion
to 'Englishness' created a society that was often more British than
Britain itself. Harry Pearson looks too at the society Constantine
came to in England, which he would embrace as much as it embraced
him: the narrow working-class world of the industrial North during
a time of grave economic depression. Connie reveals how a
flamboyant showman from the West Indies actually dovetailed rather
well in a place where local music-hall stars such as George Formby,
Frank Randle and Gracie Fields were feted as heroes, and how
Lancashire League cricket fitted into this world of popular
entertainment. Connie tells an uplifting story about sport and
prejudice, genius and human decency, and the unlikely cultural
exchange between two very different places - the tropical island of
Trinidad and the cloth-manufacturing towns of northern England -
which shared the common language of cricket.
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