Jack Fingleton further papers, 1880-1982

MLMSS 5691 ADD-ON 2041

fonds

1880-1982

Textual Records, Clippings, Photographs

98046

4 boxes and 1 outsize item - manuscript, typescript, printed, clippings, photographs

Jack Fingleton was born in Sydney in 1908. He was educated at Waverley Christian Brothers College and played cricket for Waverley Club. A right hand opening batsman, he played 18 tests for Australia from 1932 to 1938, scoring five centuries. In 1942 he married Phillipa Street, daughter of Sir Kenneth Street, Chief Justice of NSW. As a journalist he wrote articles on cricket and politics (he was a member of the Canberra Press Gallery) for Australian and overseas papers and magazines. He was also a popular and respected radio commentator on the game. His cricket books include Cricket crisis (1946), Brightly fades the Don (1949) and The ashes crown the year (1954). In 1976 he was awarded an OBE for services to sport and journalism. He died in 1981.

BOX 1
Jack Fingleton correspondence, 1939-1980

BOX 2
Jack Fingleton memorabilia, 1880-1982

BOXES 2-3, 5X
Jack Fingleton photographs, 1888-1977

BOX 4
Jack Fingleton magazines, journals and other printed material, 1931-1982

Cricket books, 1888-1977 (Mitchell Library printed books)
1897-1981; Jack Fingleton's personal collection of cricket books. The majority are inscribed by the author or donor.

Altham, H.S., A history of cricket, 1926
Altham, H.S. and Swanton, E.W., A history of cricket, 1947
Arlott, John, Test match diary, 1953
Bailey, trevor, Improve your cricket, 1963
Barbour, Eric P., The making of a cricketer, 1926;
Barnes, Sid, It isn't cricket, 1953
J.M. Barrie's Allahakbarries C.C., 1950
Bassano, Brian, South Africa in international cricket, 1979
Bradman, Don, Farewell to cricket, 1950
Caffyn, William, Seventy-one not out, 1899
Cardus, Neville, Days in the sun, 1934
Cowdrey, Colin, The incomparable game, 1970
Docker, E.W., Bradman and the bodyline series, 1978
Flanagan, Andy, On tour with Bradman, 1950
Gibson, Alan, Jackson's year, 1965
Giffen, George, With bat and ball, 1898
Goldman, J.W., Bibliography of cricket, 1937
Glasgow, R.C. Robertson-, More cricket prints, 1948
Glasgow, R.C. Robertson-, How to become a test cricketer, 1962
Grace, W.G., Cricketing reminiscences, 1899
Griffith, Charlie, Chucked around, 1970
James, C.L.R., Beyond a boundary, 1963
Jenkins, Christopher Martin-, The complete who's who of test cricket, 1981
May, Peter, Peter May's book of cricket, 1956; Miller, Alan, Close of play, 1949
Miller, Keith and Whitington, Cricket caravan, 1950
Moult, Thomas, Bat and ball, 1935
Moyes, A.G., Australian batsmen, 1954
Noble, M.A., The game's the thing, 1926
O'Reilly, W.J., Cricket conquest, 1949
Raiji, Vasant, Victor Trumper, 1964
Ranjitsinhji, K.S., The jubilee book of cricket, 1897
Robinson, Ray, Between wickets, 1948
Robinson, Ray, From the boundary, 1950
Stevenson, N.L., Play, 1946
Swanton, E.W., The world of cricket, 1966
Swanton, E.W., The test matches of 1956, 1956
Warner, P.F., The fight for the ashes, 1926

This collection comprises 4 record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.

See also Jack Fingleton papers, 1921-1981, at MLMSS 5691 (boxes 1-5 on microfilm CY 3963 - CY 3967; boxes 6-29 unfilmed)