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Boycott
Few modern British sportsmen have fascinated the public more than Geoff Boycott. In this first comprehensive and balanced account of Boycott's life - fully updated to include his battle against cancer - award-winning author Leo McKinstry lifts the lid on one of cricket's great enigmatic characters.
A record-breaking Test cricketer and acerbic commentator, Geoff Boycott has never been far away from controversy during his long career in the game.
Based on meticulous research and interviews with a host of players, Test captains, officials, broadcasters, friends and enemies, this definitive biography cuts through the Boycott myth to expose the truth about this charismatic, single-minded and often exasperating personality.
What was Boycott like as a schoolboy? How did his England cricket colleagues such as Graham Gooch, Dennis Amiss and Brian Close feel about him as a person? Why was he so unpopular in his early career for Yorkshire? And what is the real truth about the relationships that soured his private world?
From his upbringing as a miner's son in a Yorkshire village, through highlights like his hundredth century at Headingley against Australia, to the low points such as the damaging court case in France, this warts-and-all account of his life makes for captivating reading.
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- Title Geoff Boycott: A Cricketing Hero
- Author Leo McKinstry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition N
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Willow, London
- Date 2016-05-19
- ISBN 9780007196937 / 0007196938
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.5 x 5 x 1.1 in (19.05 x 12.70 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Library of Congress Catalog Number GV915
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.358
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