Hit For Six by BRODRIBB, GERALD Cricket SA player content

London: Heinemann, 1960. First Edition. hardcover with dustcover. Very Good. 8vo.

From the cover: Among the delights of the cricket field there is none so dramatic or thrilling to spectator and player alike as the big hit. The most memorable strokes made by the great hitters have passed down into history; they are remembered longer than most centuries and hat-tricks whose details are found in Wisden. In this unusual book Gerald Brodribb makes the first attempt ever to assemble some of the legends of big hitting: the facts are saved and documented for posterity in the most lively fashion.

Full-length studies of the methods and achievements of some thirty of the finest hitters the game has known provide the backbone of the book; but there is also a detailed survey of the historical hits on most of the county grounds. This original piece of research into some of the great moments of cricket history is generously spiced with anecdotes and eye-witness accounts often by the players themselves. Other chapters provide a record of some of the miracles of stroke-play that have sent sixes skimming in strange directions; a full account of the origins of the boundary; the danger and damage caused by the flying ball; and plenty of six-hitting facts and figures never before published.