OFF CUTS: WRITING ON SPORT Off Cuts: Writing on Sport

Bernard Whimpress

Australian sport demands critical thinking and Bernard Whimpress has been one of the leading sports historians over the last twenty year. Off Cuts is a collection of his work which includes fresh perspectives on the greats – Don Bradman, W.G.Grace and Wally Hammond, exploding the 87 myth in cricket, reflecting on footy crowds allowed their own movement and space, discussing the magic of Colin Miller’s blue hair as a museum artefact, and recalling the time when a baggy green cap was swapped for a few beers. Off Cuts is a lively mixture of the arcane, the romantic, the forthright, the impassioned, the critical and the quirky.