A load of old balls
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The most improbable, fascinating and endlessly entertaining sporting facts and stories, from prehistory to the present day.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS
'Top Bins! A personal best, a lap record and a hole in one for when rain has stopped play.' ALAN DAVIES
'The trivia book of the season . . . magnificent.' SPECTATOR
Did you know that Henry VIII owned the first pair of football boots? Or that David Attenborough is responsible for yellow tennis balls?
A Load of Old Balls is the curious story of us and sport. It's about our mind-blowingly determined attempts to be the fastest, the strongest, the most skilful. In this endlessly entertaining tale of play and belonging, astonishing violence and jaw-dropping cheating, we learn what led ancient Egyptian athletes to have their spleens removed and discover why Michael Palin was disqualified from a conker tournament. Crossing millennia, continents and cultures, Harkin and Ptaszynski - the brainy researchers for BBC's QI and co-hosts of No Such Thing As A Fish -show us sport as we've never seen it before.
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Published in hardback as Everything to Play For.
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For more from the team behind QI's hit TV show, check out the QI FACTS series of books, @qikipedia, their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.com or visit qi.com.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 juli 2024
Aantal pagina's: 400
Hoofdauteur: James Harkin
Tweede Auteur: James Harkin
Hoofduitgeverij: Faber & Faber
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 321 g
EAN: 9780571372546