Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks,
Football & Sporting Memorabilia

‘Bat and Ball’ B.B.C. Television broadcast 26th August 1954. 26 pages of mainly large format typed instructions, transcripts and directions for the enactment and filming of the programme on the story of the Bat and Ball ground at Hambledon, which took place at Earl’s Court Arena. The suggested running order opens with John Arlott standing near the monument to introduce the setting, the members, equipment and play. The match was enacted with well-known cricketers participating with members of the Lord’s Taverners and celebrities including Tommy Trinder, Carleton Hobbs, Sylvia Peters, Norman Shelley etc. This was Arlott’s copy, and is bound into green cloth with the bookplate of A.E. Winder to inside front cover. The front endpaper is nicely signed in ink by R.E.S. Wyatt, Keith Andrew, Tom Graveney, A.E.G. Baring, R.O. Prouton and Mike Barnard. Padwick II 3297. Very good condition.