Who’s Who of Cricketers: A Complete Who’s Who of All Cricketers Who Have Played First-class Cricket in England with Full Career Records by Philip Bailey, Philip Thorn & Peter Wynne-Thomas lands on the shelves of my shop.
Guild Publishing, 1984, Hardback in dust wrapper.
From the cover: Every cricketer who has played in a first-class match in the British Isles, including the members of touring sides, is included in this book. Biographies and complete career figures are given for about 12,000 cricketers.
Only since 1976, when the Association of Cricket Statisticians produced a generally accepted list of first-class matches, has the book been possible, and since then the three authors, all leading Association members, have been engaged on the task.
Research has included the study of books, annuals, periodicals, newspapers (both British and overseas), birth and death registrations, church records, telephone directories and County scorebooks. The number of visits, letters and telephone calls made to archivists, cricket clubs, cricketers and cricketers relatives runs into several thousand.
The result is that the authors have collected a mass of information never before published, and at the same time have been able to correct errors which have occurred in other reference books.
The Whos Who of Cricketers will remain a standard work and the essential authority on the lives and records of all first-class cricketers to play in the British Isles.
Very Good in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with a tear to the head of the spine, a small mark to the lower middle. Text complete, clean and tight.
Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 1144 pages. 10″ x 7½”.
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