Ebook: Fred Trueman: the Authorised Biography

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Remembering Fred; 1 The Last Supper; 2 Curse of the Truemans; 3 Shadow of the Pit; 4 Hit 'em First, Ask Questions Later; 5 Do You F***?; 6 Bollocks To You, Mate; 7 Mr Bumper Man; 8 All I Did Was F***ing Swear; 9 The Tempest and the Flood Tide; 10 Give Me the Bloody Ball; 11 Ah'll Si'thee; 12 That Bloody Boycott's More Slippery than a Bloody Snake; 13 I Don't Know What's Going Off Out There; 14 The Birdman of Skipton; 15 Goodbye, My Friend; Bibliography; Index; Copyright.;'Fred Trueman was the first superstar of the game. He was a flamboyant, largerthanlife character' Ian Botham. Fred Trueman was so much more than a cricketing legend. 'The greatest living Yorkshireman' according to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, he couldn't help excelling at everything he did, whether it was as a hostile fast bowler for Yorkshire and England, and the first man to take 300 Test wickets in a career, or as a fearlessly outspoken radio summariser for Test Match Special. He was famous for regularly spluttering that 'I don't know what's going off out there', as well as for the level o.