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A. A. Thomson
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Arthur Alexander Thomson MBE (7 April 1894 – 2 June 1968) was an English writer best known for his books on cricket. He was born at Harrogate, Yorkshire, and died near Lord's in London.
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I had devoted too much of my life to this utterly irrational game. I would chuck the whole thing and take to Strindberg for amusement.
Cricket My Happiness (1954), ASIN: B0000CIWJT
It is both a pointless and a churlish thing to praise the old days at the expense of the new, though there are a number of things a man might reasonably have preferred to commercial television and the hydrogen bomb.
Odd Men In (1958)
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Category:1894 births
Category:1968 deaths