Author: PIESSE, KEN. Title: Miracle Match: The Day David Downed Goliath, Brunswick St,. July 6, 1963.
Description: Signed First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 60; 2 pages of coloured photographs, text illustrated with numerous b/w. photographs, statistics, bound in original stiff illustrated wrapper, signed on the front endpaper by Brian Clements, Brian Carroll and John Bahen, fine copy, together with a handwritten note from the author confirming the signatures. Mt. Eliza, Vic.; Ken Piesse & Cricket Books; 2014. It was the boilover of the Century, the day 100/1 outsiders Fitzroy shocked high-rolling premiers-to-be Geelong in vile conditions at the old Brunswick St. Oval. The hero a roly-poly stand-in who whipped his players into a match winning frenzy in the only league game he ever coached.
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