This week is Jack Hobbs week on the Reverse Sweep timed to mark the release today of a new biography on the Master by Leo McKinstry (buy it on Amazon here).
As such there will be a series of posts on Hobbs over the coming days culminating (hopefully, if we finish it in time) by our review of the book, which was kindly sent to us by those nice people at Yellow Jersey.
As a child we were fascinated by the remarkable feats of Hobbs. During his long career that stretched from the age of Grace to the era of Bradman, he scored more first-class runs and centuries than any player before or since. Even today, he remains England’s greatest run-maker in Ashes Tests.
Having thoroughly enjoyed McKinstry’s insightful biographies of Geoff Boycott and Alf Ramsey, we were looking forward to his take on Hobbs and the book certainly hasn’t disappointed so far.
Let the festivities commence.
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