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The First Saturday in May

Carr contributed this essay about travelling to a game of cricket to a collection of essays.



In: Fine Glances. A Connoisseur's Cricket Anthology

Editors: Tom Graveney and Mike Seabrook

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Year: 1991

ISBN: 0-671-71025-7

Size: 252 x 173 mm

Pagination: pp 196

Binding: dark blue cloth with title, authors and publisher in gold on spine

Illustrations: Bill Tidy

Editors: Tom Graveney and Mike Seabrook

Cover artist: Bill Tidy

Printed by: Courier International, Tiptree

Content: Carr provided an essay called The First Saturday in May between pages 21-25 on a journey to a cricket match in 1936. It was reissued in a limited edition in 1993.

The other contributors include Mike Brearley, John Arlott, Richard Gordon, Alan Ross, Trevor McDonald and David English, among others.


Notes: Carr recorded how in 1936, after moving from Hampshire to Birmingham to take a job, he joined Aston Unity Cricket Club. When he returned to live in Birmingham after the war, probably in 1946, he joined Birmingham Municipal CC (see MCCC Year Books).

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Front panel and spine of dust jacket