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Indlæser... Eddie Gilbert : the true story of an Aboriginal cricketing legendaf Mike Colman
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Possibly the fastest bowler of his era, Eddie Gilbert's story includes three legendary encounters with the incomparable Don Bradman. But this story transcends cricket. It is the powerful, tragic experience of an Aboriginal Australian struggling to succeed in racist Queensland of the 1930s. No library descriptions found. |
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Eddie Gilbert, the fast bowler from Queensland, is one such example. The authors of "Eddie Gilbert" point out that at his peak, Gilbert was probably the most photographed sportsman in Australia. He dismissed Bradman for a duck and surely must have been in the national selectors' minds during the Bodyline Ashes series against England.
These days he is gaining a renaissance with a statue of Gilbert erected in Brisbane but for years he became a forgotten man of Australian cricket. This book, amongst others, has helped Gilbert regain the limelight forty years after his lonely death.
"Eddie Gilbert" traces his life from young firebrand bowler to national cricketing sensation to his decline. Interesting stuff but, as the writers acknowledge in their "Authors' notes", there was a battle between the authors on the way the book would be written. It shows. The book tends to weave between journalistic sensationalism and PhD style dry prose and so loses a star from its ratings but otherwise I recommend checking out "Eddie Gilbert". ( )