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'David Frith’s acclaimed biography of Archie Jackson, Australian cricket’s doomed batting genius, still stands as the definitive account of a sporting life cut heartbreakingly short. Celebrating Frith’s book as one of cricket literature’s “must-read” volumes, Mike Coward wrote of Jackson: “He was a cricketer who had been kissed by the gods; a batsman who evoked in old men memories of the immortal Victor Trumper; a batsman who, dare it be said, stood comparison with Don Bradman.” When Jackson died in 1933, at the tender age of 23, Australian cricket descended into a period of grief not experienced again until the tragic death of Phillip Hughes some 81 years later. Like Hughes, Jackson was a NSW batting prodigy revered by teammates and cricket lovers alike. Crestfallen fans flocked to his funeral, where the pallbearers included Bradman, Victor Richardson, Bill Woodfull and Bill Ponsford. When Frith’s first iteration of this classic biography was published in 1974, in a limited edition, it became the rarest of publishing phenomenon: an award-winner and an immediate collector’s item. In its foreword, England’s legendary fast bowler, Harold Larwood, wrote of Archie Jackson: “You just had to find a place in your heart for a fellow like him.” In this new edition, Archie Jackson—Cricket’s Tragic Genius, Frith has revised and updated the story, adding precious new material gleaned during a lifelong of devotion to his subject.' (Publication summary)

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Slattery Media Group , 2020 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 152 p, 16 unnumbered pages of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2020
      ISBN: 9780975836200

Works about this Work

A Promised Gift : Revisiting a Short-lived Prodigy Daniel Seaton , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 61)

— Review of Archie Jackson : Cricket's Tragic Genius David Frith , 2020 single work biography
A Promised Gift : Revisiting a Short-lived Prodigy Daniel Seaton , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 61)

— Review of Archie Jackson : Cricket's Tragic Genius David Frith , 2020 single work biography
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