From Third Man to Third Base by David Beaumont

Description

Richard Daft’s tour to Canada and USA in 1879 with seven Notts. players and five from Yorks. This is part cricket history and part travelogue, woven around contemporary reports of the tour by Edwin Browne, who was tour secretary and business manager and also a journalist in Nottingham. In addition to the cricket reports, there are detailed descriptions of places and people the team encountered and of the players themselves. In addition to Richard Daft, the Nottinghamshire players included Alfred Shaw, William Oscroft, Arthur Shrewsbury, Fred Morley, John Selby and William Barnes. 259pp