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'Lucky' Jim Pleass: The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Cricket in Wales)
Andrew Hignell
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Description for 'Lucky' Jim Pleass: The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Cricket in Wales)
Paperback. 'Lucky' Jim Pleass is the last surviving member of Glamorgan's County Championship winning team of 1948, the first time the Welsh team won the highest honour in county cricket. Series: Cricket in Wales. Num Pages: 128 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; BM; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 191 x 8. Weight in Grams: 312.
Jim Pleass is the last surviving member of Glamorgan's County Championship winning team of 1948, the first time the Welsh team won the highest honour in county cricket. The Cardiff-born multi-talented sportsman, who was also an exceptional footballer and offered trial games for Cardiff City as a schoolboy, built a reputation as a solid and reliable team player at a time when Glamorgan was establishing itself on the first class cricket scene after the Second World War. In stark contrast to contemporary sport which is too often dominated by money and celebrity, Jim was a hard-working professional sportsman ... Read more
Jim Pleass is the last surviving member of Glamorgan's County Championship winning team of 1948, the first time the Welsh team won the highest honour in county cricket. The Cardiff-born multi-talented sportsman, who was also an exceptional footballer and offered trial games for Cardiff City as a schoolboy, built a reputation as a solid and reliable team player at a time when Glamorgan was establishing itself on the first class cricket scene after the Second World War. In stark contrast to contemporary sport which is too often dominated by money and celebrity, Jim was a hard-working professional sportsman ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
St David's Press
Condition
New
Series
Cricket in Wales
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Cardiff, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902719368
SKU
V9781902719368
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Andrew Hignell
Andrew Hignell is the Archivist of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, the leading authority on the history of cricket in Wales and Editor of the Cricket in Wales series.
Reviews for 'Lucky' Jim Pleass: The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Cricket in Wales)
'Reading this fascinating book, I can but only admire Jim's contributions during Glamorgan's Championship-winning summer of 1948 or his efforts with the bat against the 1951 South Africans at Swansea - [without him] I can only wonder at how different the course of Glamorgan's cricketing history might have been...But Jim was not only an unsung hero on the cricketing fields ... Read more