Jack Fingleton: The Man who stood up to Bradman
Allen & Unwin $39.95 hb, 311 pp
Biography
Get over him!
by Brian Stoddart •
In an age when cricketing biographies predominantly lionise one-dimensional and vacuous individuals, this is a pleasurable reminder of an earlier era when even test players had regular jobs and a better sense of balance about life’s priorities.
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