{"product_id":"sporting-supermen-book-brendan-gallagher-9781845131654","title":"Sporting Supermen","description":"When Brendan Gallagher wrote a feature on the \"Telegraph's\" sports pages about his favourite sporting comic heroes the response from readers was unprecedented: hundreds of emails from nostalgic readers. Now he has turned his researches and enthusiasm into a unique celebration of these prodigious characters. He devotes separate chapters to the three greatest heroes: Wilson of the Wizard, Alf Tupper, the 'Tough of the Track', and Roy of the Rovers. Then he covers the best of the rest: men like Skid Solo, Johnny Cougar and Raven on the Wing. He also tells the story of the remarkable Gilbert Dalton, author of the Wilson stories, a writing machine who wrote millions of words in his lifetime and whose productivity put Dickens to shame, and has talked to the BBC's Stewart Storey for a modern (and entirely serious) analysis of some of Wilson's most amazing feats (like a three-minute mile). Here, then, are such truly extraordinary feats bowling out Australia twice in a day with 120mph deliveries in a 1953 Ashes Test, a professional footballer still playing in the top flight at the age of around 75, not to mention running 20 miles cross-country in 2 hours to warn the Duke of Wellington of Napoleon's advance...","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49585870504209,"sku":"GOR001287808","price":3.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50541650936081,"sku":"GOR010583144","price":4.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1845131657.jpg?v=1750802418","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/sporting-supermen-book-brendan-gallagher-9781845131654","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}