Masters of Cricket. From Trumper to May

8vo; original grey cloth, a little sunned, and mottled on spine; no dustwrapper; previous owner's name erased on front endpaper; pp. 260; black-and-white photographic plates; scattered light foxing. Good condition. "Jack Fingleton is that rare combination - first-class cricketer and first-class writer. For his assessments of cricketers of an earlier generation he has studied the history of the game and gone to good judges with first-hand information on his subjects to build up warm, penetrating and balanced portraits of some of the greatest names cricket has ever known. On modern players and administrators he is, as usual, trenchant and well informed: his evaluations - of Ian Craig as Captain of Australia; of tendencies in modern cricket-writing, and of the present control of cricket in Australia - should make a deep impression on our thinking about cricket.".