This reference work contains 265 anecdotes relating to all major sports played in Australia. It offers a kaleidoscopic history of Australian sport, capturing its essential humour, poignancy and heroism. While many anecdotes celebrate sport, others record its less positive aspects: drug-taking, debilitating injury, notorious failure and crass officialdom. It also features entries on all the legendary characters of Australian sport.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0195534689
- ISBN 13 9780195534689
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages286