Cricket Books

[pasag]

Got Flying Stumps by Ray Lindwall in the mail today, the print is tiny, have no idea how I'm going to read that. Might have to get the magnifying glass out.

 

[neville cardus]

At least your mail gets to you, mate. The post office succeeded recently in losing a ten-book package of mine.

 

[archie mac]

At least your mail gets to you, mate. The post office succeeded recently in losing a ten-book package of mine.

In twenty years I have never had a book go missing

 

[neville cardus]

In twenty years I have never had a book go missing

And that's meant to make me feel better?

 

[pasag]

At least your mail gets to you, mate. The post office succeeded recently in losing a ten-book package of mine.

Jeez, my sympathies.

 

[Joe Ninety]

In twenty years I have never had a book go missing

Not a book lender then?

 

[archie mac]

Not a book lender then?

NO! I have lent two, one I never got back and the other came back a little creased

 

[Lillian Thomson]

The new Ian Botham Autobiography Head On

This book gets more laughable every time you pick it up. In the index on page 380 it references, and I quote, "third pregnancy, looses the baby." I know people on here often say "loose" instead of "lose" but surely this book had a proof reader somewhere.
Then on page 382 it gives a reference to, and again I quote, "Hadlee, Sir Michael 290"

 

[archie mac]

This book gets more laughable every time you pick it up. In the index on page 380 it references, and I quote, "third pregnancy, looses the baby." I know people on here often say "loose" instead of "lose" but surely this book had a proof reader somewhere.
Then on page 382 it gives a reference to, and again I quote, "Hadlee, Sir Michael 290"

Tbf there is hardly a new book you pick up these days which does not contain typos. You would think with all of the spell checks and the like that this would become less common, but compared to the old books I read it is simply much, much worse.

 

[archie mac]

Top book this one The Cricket Captains of England

 

[neville cardus]

Looks like one for me. Thanks.

 

[archie mac]

Looks like one for me. Thanks.

Where have you been?

 

[neville cardus]

Where have you been?

Raiding the book stores of Amanzimtoti:

Mailey: 10 for 66 and all that
Fingo: Cricket Crisis
Mike Denness: I Declare
Ken Piesse: The Ashes
John St John (ed.): The M.C.C. Book for the Young Cricketer
Ray Robinson: Between Wickets
Edward Griffiths: Kepler: The Biography
Arthur Goldman: Cricket Capers
Dolly: The D'Oliveira Affair
Matthew Engel (ed.): Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1995
Leslie Frewin (ed.): The Boundary Book: Second Innings
Maurice Moiseiwitsch: A Sky-Blue Life
Roy McLean: Sackcloth Without Ashes
Peter May's Book of Cricket
Norman Cutler: Behind the South African Tests
Jackie McGlew: Cricket for South Africa
Various Hustler and Playboy magazines

 

[archie mac]

Raiding the book stores of Amanzimtoti:

Mailey: 10 for 66 and all that
Fingo: Cricket Crisis
Mike Denness: I Declare
Ken Piesse: The Ashes
John St John (ed.): The M.C.C. Book for the Young Cricketer
Ray Robinson: Between Wickets
Edward Griffiths: Kepler: The Biography
Arthur Goldman: Cricket Capers
Dolly: The D'Oliveira Affair
Matthew Engel (ed.): Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1995
Leslie Frewin (ed.): The Boundary Book: Second Innings
Maurice Moiseiwitsch: A Sky-Blue Life
Roy McLean: Sackcloth Without Ashes
Peter May's Book of Cricket
Norman Cutler: Behind the South African Tests
Jackie McGlew: Cricket for South Africa
Various Hustler and Playboy magazines

The last ones just for the articles?

 

[neville cardus]

The last ones just for the articles?

Naturally.

I forgot to mention John Clarke's Cricket with a Swing and Tom Eaton's delightfully capricious but too often over-the-top Twelve Seats Back. Which of that lot would you suggest I embark upon once I'm done with Mailey?

 

[archie mac]

The Boundary Book is a little hit and miss, but has some very good pieces

 

[neville cardus]

The Boundary Book is a little hit and miss, but has some very good pieces

I read both of the Harry East contributions -- delightful as ever --, but you're right: it does appear a touch haphazard. What, for the record, is your favourite anthology?

PS: The Mail Delivery Service has just informed me that your mailbox is full, so my similarly haphazard message of politics and gratitude probably didn't reach you.

 

[archie mac]

I read both of the Harry East contributions -- delightful as ever --, but you're right: it does appear a touch haphazard. What, for the record, is your favourite anthology?

PS: The Mail Delivery Service has just informed me that your mailbox is full, so my similarly haphazard message of politics and gratitude probably didn't reach you.

Not sure why it is full, have not got any messages for three days now

I quite like this one:Crickets silver lining 1864-1914

Did you get the scan by Mailey I sent you?

 

[neville cardus]

[...]I quite like this one:Crickets silver lining 1864-1914

I particularly enjoyed the Shakespearean adaptation.

Did you get the scan by Mailey I sent you?

I did indeed. My message of thanks for it was the one that didn't get through. Anyway, thanks!

 

[archie mac]

Anyway we have a new member of the book review team; Stuart.

Stuart is not a member of the forum but you never know he may come over for a visit, he knows his stuff and as review quite a few classic books for us already

Cradle Days

The Summer Game

Bodyline Autopsy

Beyond a Boundary

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