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Amazing Grace - The Man Who was W.G. (Paperback)
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Amazing Grace - The Man Who was W.G. (Paperback)
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On a sunny afternoon in May 1868, nineteen-year-old Gilbert Grace
stood in a Wiltshire field, wondering why he was playing cricket
against the Great Western Railway Club. A batting genius, 'W. G.'
should have been starring at Lord's in the grand opening match of
the season. But MCC did not want to elect this humble son of a
provincial doctor. W. G's career was faltering before it had barely
begun. Grace finally forced his way into MCC and over the next
three decades, millions came to watch him - not just at Lord's, but
across the British Empire and beyond. Only W. G. could boast a fan
base that stretched from an American Civil War general and the
Prince of Wales's mistress to the children who fingered his
coat-tails as he walked down the street, just to say 'I touched
him'. The public never knew the darker story behind W. G.'s
triumphal progress. Accused of avarice, W. G. was married to the
daughter of a bankrupt. Disparaged as a simpleton, his subversive
mind recast how to play sport - thrillingly hard, pushing the
rules, beating his opponents his own way. In Amazing Grace, Richard
Tomlinson unearths a life lived so far ahead of his times that W.
G. is still misunderstood today. For the first time, Tomlinson
delves into long-buried archives in England and Australia to reveal
the real W. G: a self-made, self-destructive genius, at odds with
the world and himself.
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