Tony Hannan

Broschiertes Buch

Underdogs

Keegan Hirst, Batley and a Year in the Life of a Rugby League Town

Beschreibung

Shortlisted for the 2018 General Outstanding Sports Book of the Year One of the founder members in 1895 of what became the Rugby League, Batley was once a thriving centre of commerce, one of the bustling mill towns in the Heavy Woollen District of West Yorkshire.

Autor

Tony Hannan is a respected author and currently editor-at-large of the rugby league magazine Forty20. Among his other books are Being Eddie Waring , Tries and Prejudice - the story of England's first Muslim rugby international, Ikram Butt - and On Behalf of the Committee: A History of Northern Comedy. An ex-Press Association sports journalist, he is also a co-director of Scratching Shed, publisher of books on all aspects of northern English culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780857503534
• ISBN-10: 0857503537
• Artikelnr.: 49610459