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Hundreds of footy books

Have just bought a big library which includes 100s of AFL books from the ’60s onwards. I will list them in time but if you wanted to ask me about a particular book, do email me at kenpiesse@ozemail.com.au  

A dishonourable discharge

KEN PIESSE reviews Tim Paine’s autobiography The Price Paid So angry and broken was Tim Paine after exiting the Australian Test captaincy in disgrace, that he pondered taking his own life. His Australian and Tasmanian kitbags were binned: pads, bats, gloves, helmets, everything.

DU PLESSIS TARGETS WARNER

David Warner’s polarising onfield behavior is central in Faf du Plessis’s just released autobiography ‘Faf Through Fire’. Describing Warner as his fiercest rival, he said the sledging he and others received from Warner was totally against the spirit of the game and triggered a dramatic reaction from the South Africans in the tersest Test series […]

HASSETT TOPS THE GEELONG POLL

Lindsay Hassett has been named Geelong’s most outstanding international sportsman or women, by author John Craven. Craven selected 100 Geelong Region all-time international sports greats and Brownlow Medallists and Hassett is No1, ahead of John sandy and Russell Mockridge.