Dickie Bird: My Autobiography |
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 | When Dickie Bird tried to get his first match with Barnsley Cricket Club, he was just 15 years old. But when the batsman in the nets took one look at the skinny teenager and sent him on his way, Dickie Bird was nearly lost to cricket forever. Fortunately, a kindly man met the weeping youngster on his way back to the bus stop and took pity--and spent the rest of the evening bowling to him in the nets. He did play for Barnsley and later--though intermittently--for his beloved Yorkshire. Fated to be the twelfth man, however, he left for Leicestershire from where, though he played regularly, he chose instead to go into umpiring. The rest, as they say, is history; but it is an interesting history of a miner's son who became a worldwide celebrity and chose, after retiring from cricket, to tell his millions of adoring fan the whole tale. Growing up in Barnsley, becoming a professional cricketer, then training as an umpire--all the steps along the way are lovingly recorded in My ... read more.
Written by Dickie Bird.
Published 18 September 1997.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London.
rrp £18.99.
367 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 0340684577
ISBN-13: 9780340684573 | |
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