Introduction

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Notes

1. Jeffrey Richards, ‘Lord's and Commons: Cricket in novels and stories’, International Journal of the History of Sport, 6 (3) (1989), pp. 393–4.

2. Umberto Eco, On literature, trans. Martin McLaughlin (London, 2005) p. 1.

3. Douglas Booth, The field: Truth and fiction in sport history (London, 2005).

4. Martin Johnes, ‘Texts, audiences, and postmodernism: The novel as source in sport history’, Journal of Sport History, 34 (1) (2007), pp. 121–33; John Bale, Anti-sport sentiments in literature: Batting for the opposition (Abingdon, 2007); Jeffrey Hill, Sport and the literary imagination: Essays in history, literature, and sport (Oxford, 2006).

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Notes on contributors

Jeffrey Hill

Jeffrey Hill, International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH

Jean Williams

Jean Williams, International Centre for Sport History and Culture, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH