在这本极具娱乐性的书中，弗雷德·拉姆齐回顾了他多事之秋的生活，在这本书中，他在五次测试中为英格兰队开启了保龄球之旅，一手推动了职业板球运动员协会的理念，开创了板球公共关系的发展，在洛德酒馆的扩张中发挥了主导作用，并在加勒比地区发展了板球和足球比赛。有很多乐趣，就像喜剧演员埃里克·莫坎贝和戴夫·艾伦的朋友一样，但也有一种社会使命感，不仅在他加入板球俱乐部的那些年里，而且在他长期为洛德酒馆的慈善工作服务，以及他与反种族隔离南非记者唐纳德·伍兹的亲密关系中，都能找到这种乐趣。从他在闪电战中对伦敦东区童年的辛辣描述，到他与杰弗里·博伊克特（Geoffrey Bouct）合住一间酒店房间的奇妙有趣故事，《幽默感，正义感》充满了乐趣——他洞察了一系列丰富的人物，其中包括大卫·高尔（David Gower）、鲍比·摩尔（Bobby Moore）、大卫·弗罗斯特（David Frost）和他的好友科林·米尔本（Colin Milburn）。
Sense of Humour, Sense of Justice
In this highly entertaining book Fred Rumsey looks back on an eventful life, in which he opened the bowling for England in five Tests, single-handedly advanced the idea of a Professional Cricketers’ Association, pioneered the development of public relations in cricket, played a leading role in the expansion of the Lord’s Taverners and developed cricket and football tournaments in the Caribbean. There is fun aplenty, as befits one who was a friend of comedians Eric Morecambe and Dave Allen, but there is also a sense of social purpose, to be found not only in the years when he took on cricket’s establishment but in his long service to the charity work of the Lord’s Taverners and his close bond with the anti-apartheid South African journalist Donald Woods. From the poignancy of his description of an East End childhood during the Blitz to the wonderfully funny tale of his sharing a hotel room with Geoffrey Boycott, ‘Sense of Humour, Sense of Justice’ is full of delights – with insights into a rich array of characters, among them David Gower, Bobby Moore, David Frost and his great mate Colin Milburn.
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