The Baggy Green

Download or read book The Baggy Green written by Michael Fahey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story and history of The Baggy Green – Australia's premier sporting icon. The baggy green cap worn by Australian Test players is an icon. It's the pride of Australian cricket. With the face of the game everchanging, the wearing of the baggy green has always been the pinnacle for Australian players. The baggy green cap is revered by everyone with a connection to Australian cricket. The Baggy Green book charts its evolution with reflections from many past and present Test players. It explores the cap's history, mystique and worth, with insight from the sport's greatest figures, museums and leading auction houses.

Download or read book Warwick Todd written by Tom Gleisner and published by ABC Enterprises(Australian Broadcasting Corporation). This book was released on 1998 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warwick Todd, alter ego of funnyman and actor Tom Gleisner, tells all on the Australian cricket team s journey through India and Sharjah.

Download or read book Legends of the Baggy Green written by Alexander Buzo and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of brigands and bogans, legends and sledgends, Legends of the Baggy Green is an acerbic commentary on the codes and manners of cricket behaviour. Part social history, part blooper tape, this book takes sports comedy back to where it all began. The sins of modern cricket-sledging, chucking, match-fixing, plus the heinous practice of putting the ball in the freezer to make it bounce higher - are all here, along with a rogues' gallery that includes everyone from 'Horseshoe' Herby Collins to Salim 'The Rat' Malik. From the watermelon presented to Syd Gregory to the brown paper bag full of cash that was given to the late Hansie Cronje, there is full disclosure in Legends of the Baggy Green, as well as comment on the commentators who have observed cricket's transit from Lord's to Hollywood, and from the Gabbatoir to the Elysian, desalinated fields of Sharjah. The outburst by 'Oo-ah' Glenn McGrath in the West Indies in 2003 put cricket behaviour on front pages all over the world. As is usual with McGrath, women sighed, men admired and boofheads fumed, but what was really going on? What the hell has happened to the game we loved and respected? There is ample scope for both humour and criticism here, and playwright, satirist and genuine cricket 'tragic' Alex Buzo has sharpened his pen to provide plenty of both.

Download or read book The Baggy Green written by Michael Fahey and published by Cricket Pub.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book charts the evolution with reflections from many past and present Test players of the 'Australian Baggy Green Cricket Cape'. The argument is given that by the turn of the 21st century the cap had become a national icon -- a symbol of Australian sporting excellence and a highly sought after item of memorabilia. Details of the sale prices achieved when the cap has been sold around the world are also given. As Mark Taylor notes it 'is a powerful and timeless symbol which connects Victor Trumper to Ricky Ponting'.

Download or read book The Saggy Baggy Elephant written by Kathryn Jackson and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a parrot makes fun of Sooki’s big ears, long nose, and wrinkled skin, the “saggy baggy” elephant isn’t too sure of himself. But once he meets some beautiful creatures who look just like him, Sooki celebrates with a joyful “one-two-three-kick.” For over 50 years, parents and children have treasured this tale, with gorgeous art by Gustaf Tenggren, the illustrator of The Poky Little Puppy.

Download or read book Baggy Green Legends written by Martin Lenehan and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stiff Upper Lips & Baggy Green Caps written by Simon Briggs and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peppered with bouncers, expletives, and even the odd diplomatic incident, this is a rip-roaring journey through over a century of Ashes history. For a list of every Ashes century and five-wicket haul, try Wisden, but if you want to know which England batsman was a martyr to syphilis and which Australian fast bowler reckoned the Queen had 'nice legs for an old Sheila', then read on... Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps exposes the seamy side of Ashes cricket. It gives the inside story behind controversies from the Bodyline series of 1932-33 and the Lillee and Thomson blitzkrieg of 1974-75, right up to the unseemly modern spats that ensure that this biannual frenzy of backbiting, finger-pointing and dubious facial hair remains one of the great events of the sporting calendar.