Frank Keating is known for the humour and observation of his award-winning sports contributions to "The Guardian", "The Spectator" and "Punch". In this autobiography he evokes a country childhood in the almost-vanished England of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire; tells raucous tales of the provincial pageant of local journalism; and recounts a crazy decade with Independent Television as a maverick producer, before his love of sport brought him to his "Guardian" column. The book, which was shortlisted for the 1992 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, incorporates appraisals of giants of the sports field (Botham and Best) and the press-box (Arlott and Cardus).
- ISBN10 0751507164
- ISBN13 9780751507164
- Publish Date 17 February 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Time Warner Paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 232
- Language English