A Year in the Life of Somerset CCC

A Year in the Life of Somerset CCC
Author: Andy Nash
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-04-20
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0752497189

Written from the unique point of view of the club chairman, A Year in the Life of Somerset County Cricket Club is the story of the highs and lows of county cricket.Somerset County Cricket Club was founded in 1875 and since then has provided its many members and supporters with countless memories. In recent years the Club has established itself as one of the leading clubs in England, closely competing for honours every season and developing many young players through its age-group and Academy system. The Club has simultaneously transformed its fortunes off the pitch, managing to redevelop the County Ground in Taunton without freighting itself with large debts. In October last year the ECB granted Somerset Provisional Category B status, meaning it can now progress towards hosting England ODIs and T20 fixtures, which will bring many benefits to the West Country. This book provides a captivating insight into the daily workings in and around the Club throughout 2012 as it meets numerous challenges and prepares future plans.All royalties from sales of this book have been kindly donated by the author to the Clowance charity that promotes youth cricket.

The Shorter Wisden 2014

The Shorter Wisden 2014
Author: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1472912446

The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the 2013 season.

The Shorter Wisden 2011 - 2015

The Shorter Wisden 2011 - 2015
Author: Scyld Berry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 1850
Release: 2015-08-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1472927338

The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the previous season. Brought together for the first time, here are the first five editions of The Shorter Wisden, distilled from the Almanacks published between 2011 and 2015.

Original Spin

Original Spin
Author: Vic Marks
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1760635480

The much-loved former England player, Guardian cricket correspondent and TMS broadcaster tells the story of his life in cricket for the first time. In April 1974 new recruits Viv Richards, Ian Botham, Peter Roebuck and Vic Marks reported for duty at Somerset County Cricket Club. Apart from Richards, 'all of us were eighteen years old, though Botham seemed to have lived a bit longer - or at least more vigorously - than the rest.' In this irresistible memoir of a life lived in cricket, Vic Marks returns to the heady days when Richards and Botham were young men yet to unleash their talents on the world stage while he and Roebuck looked on in awe. After the high-octane dramas of Somerset, playing for England was almost an anti-climax for Marks, who became an unlikely all-rounder in the mercurial side of the 1980s. Moving from the dressing room to the press box, with trenchant observations about the modern game along the way, Original Spin is a charmingly wry, shrewdly observed account of a golden age in cricket.

The Summer Field: A History of English Cricket Since 1840

The Summer Field: A History of English Cricket Since 1840
Author: Mark Rowe
Publisher: Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1708165754

Cricket has come a long way since players could only travel on foot, or by horse and cart. Some things never change; someone has to bat, someone bowl, someone be captain; everyone has to learn. The game is nothing without cricketers; yet the men (or women) on the field are never the full story, as The Summer Field shows. It includes spectators, journalists, ground-keepers, coaches, umpires, selectors and tea ladies. Nor is it only the story of the greatest players, such as Sydney Barnes and Herbert Sutcliffe; we meet also Will Richards, the Nottingham school-teacher; his friend George Wakerley, the job-hunting club professional; and Freeman Barnardo, of Eton and Cambridge. This history of cricket since the coming of the railways seeks to answer questions, such as: what was it like to play cricket in the past? Who played it, and why did they? And why are the English so obsessed with Australia?

People of the Day 3

People of the Day 3
Author: Peter Wynter Bee
Publisher: People of the Day Limited
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Celebrities
ISBN: 095481102X

Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 1, 1682-1709

Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 1, 1682-1709
Author: Craig W. Horle
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 904
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512817007

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.