Description
Delivery: The Best of The Yorker brings together the finest writing from the Melbourne Cricket Club Library's celebrated sports history journal, gathered into a single volume for the first time.
Since its founding, The Yorker has attracted historians, journalists, and Members with a deep knowledge of sport and its place in Australian life. This collection presents the essays, profiles, and reflections that have defined the journal's reputation – writing that treats sport as serious history, worthy of serious attention.
From the long arc of Test cricket to the broader sweep of Australian football and sporting culture, Delivery is a book for readers who know that the stories behind the game matter as much as the game itself.
It is a fitting tribute to a publication that has always believed sport's heritage deserves great writing.
- Premium hardcover edition
- Curated collection of the finest articles from The Yorker
- Covers cricket, Australian football, sporting treasures and unique historical oddities
- Richly illustrated with rare archival photography and historical imagery
- Drawn from more than 25 years of research and storytelling by the MCC Library
- Ideal for MCC members, sporting historians, collectors and lovers of Australian sporting heritage