'Lucky' Jim Pleass: The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Cricket in Wales 2)
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'Lucky' Jim Pleass: The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Cricket in Wales 2)

'Lucky' Jim Pleass: The Memoirs of Glamorgan's 1948 Championship Winner (Cricket in Wales 2)

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Andrew Hignell (Author)  

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Jim Pleass is the last surviving member of Glamorgan's County Championship winning team of 1948, the first time the Welsh team won the highest honour in county cricket. The Cardiff-born multi-talented sportsman, who was also an exceptional footballer and offered trial games for Cardiff City as a schoolboy, built a reputation as a solid and reliable team player at a time when Glamorgan was establishing itself on the first class cricket scene after the Second World War. In stark contrast to contemporary sport which is too often dominated by money and celebrity, Jim was a hard-working professional sportsman typical of his era, who simply enjoyed the camaraderie and of the game he loved. Yet the man who was born in Cardiff in 1923 achieved something that only a handful of the five hundred or so people who have proudly worn the daffodil-sweater since the Club's formation in 1888, can claim to have also matched, winning some sixty summers after the Club's creation their first-ever County Championship title. Jim was a very lucky man, as the book explains his narrow escape from certain death when he stormed the Normandy beaches on D day in 1944. If it wasn't for the over-exuberance of a driver on another landing craft, Jim would never have graced the cricket field wearing the daffodil of Glamorgan County Cricket Club. b/w photos
Andrew Hignell is the Archivist of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, the leading authority on the history of cricket in Wales and Editor of the Cricket in Wales series.
  • Contributor: Andrew Hignell
  • Imprint: St David's Press
  • ISBN13: 9781902719368
  • Number of Pages: 128
  • Packaged Dimensions: 165x234x12mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: St David's Press
  • Release Date: 2014-04-01
  • Series: Cricket in Wales
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Andrew Hignell is the Archivist of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, the leading authority on the history of cricket in Wales and Editor of the Cricket in Wales series.

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