Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? by Julian Norridge

Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? by Julian Norridge

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Goes through the stories of fourteen major sports from cricket to boxing to football, from their beginning and throughout the British Isles, whether it's Welsh inventor and tobacco enthusiast Major Walter Clopton Wingfield coming up with a game that could use those new fangled rubber balls (modern tennis) or the Scots inventing the golf club.

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Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? by Julian Norridge

Goes through the stories of fourteen major sports from cricket to boxing to football, from their beginning and throughout the British Isles, whether it's Welsh inventor and tobacco enthusiast Major Walter Clopton Wingfield coming up with a game that could use those new fangled rubber balls (modern tennis) or the Scots inventing the golf club.
Julian Norridge is an award-winning journalist, BAFTA- and Emmy-nominated programme maker and writer. He lives in Putney. This is his first book
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ISBN 13 9781846141157
ISBN 10 184614115X
Title Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please?
Author Julian Norridge
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2008-11-06
Number of pages 400
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.