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Cotton; Cricket and Football

- Billy Cook, the Life of a Lancashire League Legend
Af: Paul Kaye Engelsk Hardback

Cotton; Cricket and Football

- Billy Cook, the Life of a Lancashire League Legend
Af: Paul Kaye Engelsk Hardback
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Cotton, Cricket and Football: Billy Cook, the Life of a Lancashire League Legend is the colourful story of one of Lancashire’s greatest sportsmen of the pre-war era, told from the perspective of his daughter, a mill-worker in Burnley.

Billy Cook played cricket in the golden era of ‘Gentlemen and Players’ but he was no gentleman. He played to win and he played for money – the money generated by the cotton mills of Lancashire.

Billy played with and against some of the legends of the time, including Syd Barnes, Archie MacLaren and Learie Constantine. In the winter he was a hard-tackling full-back for Oldham Athletic, who achieved national notoriety for his win-at-all-costs approach to the game.

Billy’s sporting career was interrupted by his service on the Western Front, where he narrowly avoided death. He returned to the Lancashire League to set records that still stand today. Cook was the archetypal hard-nosed professional, who entertained the working men of Lancashire for more than 30 years.

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Cotton, Cricket and Football: Billy Cook, the Life of a Lancashire League Legend is the colourful story of one of Lancashire’s greatest sportsmen of the pre-war era, told from the perspective of his daughter, a mill-worker in Burnley.

Billy Cook played cricket in the golden era of ‘Gentlemen and Players’ but he was no gentleman. He played to win and he played for money – the money generated by the cotton mills of Lancashire.

Billy played with and against some of the legends of the time, including Syd Barnes, Archie MacLaren and Learie Constantine. In the winter he was a hard-tackling full-back for Oldham Athletic, who achieved national notoriety for his win-at-all-costs approach to the game.

Billy’s sporting career was interrupted by his service on the Western Front, where he narrowly avoided death. He returned to the Lancashire League to set records that still stand today. Cook was the archetypal hard-nosed professional, who entertained the working men of Lancashire for more than 30 years.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781801504997
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1801504997
Kategori: Biografier: sport
Udg. Dato: 16 okt 2023
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 161mm
Højde: 241mm
Forlag: Pitch Publishing Ltd
Oplagsdato: 16 okt 2023
Forfatter(e): Paul Kaye
Forfatter(e) Paul Kaye

Kategori Biografier: sport

ISBN-13 9781801504997

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 272

Udgave

Længde 26mm

Bredde 161mm

Højde 241mm

Udg. Dato 16 okt 2023

Oplagsdato 16 okt 2023

Forlag Pitch Publishing Ltd

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