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Half-Time: The Glorious Summer of 1934 by Robert Winder
$45.00 NZD
Category: Sport | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
Set against the backdrop of depression-era politics, 1934 was an annus mirabilis for English sport. Within just a few days of each other, Hedley Verity, Henry Cotton and Fred Perry all triumphed in their field. To a sporting audience still groaning through the quagmire left by the Great Depression, gree ...Show more
Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain by Peter Chapman
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Category: History | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
London, July 1966. Peter Chapman, a naive 18-year-old from Islington, is on the brink of adulthood. Everything is changing: having failed his A-levels and recently discovered he will not be fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional footballer at Leyton Orient, he is just about to enter the world o ...Show more
The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final by Richard Moore
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Category: History | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's 100 metres at those Olympics is certainly the most infamous in the history of athletics, and more indelibly etched into the consciousness of the spor ...Show more
The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India by James Astill
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Category: Sport | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League - cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment. The Great Tamasha exa ...Show more
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