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CricketMASH is delighted to announce the release of Paddington Boy by the one and only David Frith.
David Frith's revised and updated autobiography, 25 years on from the acclaimed 1997 story of his decades at the heart of cricket: a story of wartime, two-way emigration, playing, watching and writing about cricket past and present: the controversies, the sweeping research, the friends (and enemies), the great occasions, and closeness to the Arlotts and Bradmans and hordes of others. This is cricket from the central hub and a human story like no other.
David Frith has perhaps forgotten more about the game and its history than most of us will ever come close to knowing.
He started writing his first book on cricket in 1968.
He did not stop for the next 53 years.
38 books encapsulating the history of cricket, and thereby snapshots of society and life.
And then there is his collection of cricketana, memorabilia and films.
The letters alone amount to more than 6000. There are more than 500 VHS tapes, over 350 Betamax cassettes and several DVDs and films, hundreds of sound tapes.
“Makes me feel like Methuselah,” he once said.
In 2020, he also said, “If I have one more book left in me it might be my autobiography, which seemed to have been blanked by much of the cricket world in 1996, and now needs to be amended and updated.”
Here is that amended and updated autobiography.
Paddington Boy by David Frith
442 pages
Over 100 pictures
Releasing 12 May 2021
