2008, ISBN: 0980346665

[EAN: 9780980346664], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Geoff slattery Publishing, Docklands, Victoria], AFL, Jacket, A fine almost as new HB of 396 pages with a fine DJ which is folded back… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780980346664], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Geoff slattery Publishing, Docklands, Victoria], AFL, Jacket, A fine almost as new HB of 396 pages with a fine DJ which is folded back top & bottom 50 mm for extra abrasion resistance. The illustrated end papers are a facsimile of the 1859 hand written "Rules of the Melbourne Football Club. This is a most handsome and impressive volume weighing 3.12 kilos. By the winter of 1859, it was clear the game needed structure, and a group of men established a committee to formalise the rules. On May 17, four members of that committee gather in a hotel in Wellington Parade, in a bid to set the game on its way. There were two journalists, James Thompson and William Hammersley, with champion cricker, Tom Wills, and the Scotch College classics master, Tom Smith, to create the first set of rules for club based football in the world. The game has now celebrated the 150th anniversity of Australia's only indigenous game covers every aspect of the game. Foreword by Kevin Sheedy, Books<