Enjoying a celebrity shared by perhaps only Gladstone and Queen Victoria of his contemporaries, W.G. Grace was the world's first sporting superstar. Researched in archives from Grimsby to Australia, and drawing on diaries, letters, and access to the cricketer's own library, this biography offers a radical analysis of Grace's career. It also reviews the more controversial aspects of his conduct, including verbal and physical altercations both on and off the field, and his kidnapping of an Australian cricketer from Lord's. Discussion of his private life encompasses his childhood, his marriage, his children, his grief at the death of a daughter and later his eldest son, and his career as a doctor. The book includes an extensive statistical survey by Bill Frindall.
- ISBN10 0571178553
- ISBN13 9780571178551
- Publish Date 6 July 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 568
- Language English