Dickie Bird
Born in 1933, the son of a miner, Dickie Bird has spent a life ‘married to cricket’. He was signed up to play for Yorkshire age 19, and played on the county circuit for the next 13 years. In 1979 he became a Test match umpire. The announcement that he would umpire his final Test at Lord’s in June 1996 signalled the end of an international career which has won him worldwide affection as the finest umpire in cricket history.
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80 Not Out: My Favourite Cricket Memories
Hardly a week goes by without Dickie Bird visiting a county or Test match arena where he can keep up to date with all that…
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Best of Dickie Bird
Seventy-four minutes of laughter, anecdotes, and memories from cricket's best-loved umpire. Now collected for the first time in one audiobook, here are brilliant highlights from…
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White Cap and Bails
In this new anecdotal book, the unstoppable Dickie Bird takes one County Cricket Club at a time and revisits each with the aid of memorabilia,…
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Dickie Bird Autobiography
Dickie Bird's retirement was an international event shown on TV screens and newspapers throughout the world. He is a household name, an eccentric, and one…