Media: BOOK - paperback, 296 pages
Authors: by R. Cashman, G. Kinross-Smith & D. Headon
Year: (1994)
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This lively anthology' contains 255 entertaining stories of success and failure in Australian sport. Many of them have assumed legendary proportions and become part of our national culture. Keith Miller’s nonchalant feats on the cricket field. Dawn Fraser’s nocturnal adventures in Tokyo. Evonne Cawley’s superb tennis at Wimbledon. Merv Hughes's displays of mateship, and David Campese’s sensational tries are among our most well-known and colourful anecdotes.

All major sports are covered in this anthology, which offers a kaleidoscopic history of Australian sport — its humour, poignancy, larrikinism and heroism. All the legendary characters of Australian sport move through these pages: Raelene Boyle, Don Bradman, the Chappell brothers. Betty Cuthbert. Shane Gould. Lew Hoad, Walter Lindrum, Hubert Opperman and Tommy Woodcock. This is a collection for all sports lovers.