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	Hero- Don Bradman, cricket legend
		Sir Don was born in 1908 and whilst at school used to amuse himself by using a cricket stump to continually hit a golf ball against a water tank, all the time honing a skill that would one day see him as undeniably the greatest batsman of all time.
		In 1930 Bradman was again selected in the Australian team which took six weeks to sail to England, the Series itself was a most successful one with Bradman scoring 974 test runs.
		Donald Bradman was knighted in 1949 and although he has taken on some public roles especially associated with the Australian Cricket Board, he has in the main sought and achieved a very private life.
	www.upfromaustralia.com /herdonbradcr.html (336 words)

	Bradman, don: the life of sir don bradman, cricket player extraordinaire
		In the world of cricket, Don Bradman was such a man. At the end of the twentieth century, just over a year before the great man’s death, nobody playing the game had got within spitting distance of his unparalleled batting record.
		Don Bradman was born in 1908 in a backwater village, near to the city of Sydney in Australia.
		Bradman came to the wicket and scored 270, the innings that many declare to be his best.
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	Donald Bradman Summary
		Bradman developed his batting by throwing a golf ball against a tank stand and playing it with a stump and his fielding by throwing a golf ball at the bottom rail of a fence.
		Bradman so dominated the game that special bowling tactics, known as fast leg theory or Bodyline, regarded by many as unsporting and dangerous, were devised by England captain Douglas Jardine to reduce his dominance in a series of international matches against England in the Australian summer of 1932–1933.
		Bradman is immortalised in three popular songs of very different styles and eras, "Our Don Bradman", a jaunty 1930s ditty by Jack O'Hagan[2], by Paul Kelly in the 1980s, and in "Sir Don", an emotional tribute by Australian Singer John Williamson at Bradman's Memorial Service.
	www.bookrags.com /Donald_Bradman (2456 words)

	Secret of Don Bradman
		Regarded as the world's greatest player, Bradman can be seen on grainy film thrashing the ball through the off-side field with his front foot nowhere near the pitch of the ball.
		Bradman's unorthodox backlift, straying from the accepted model of resting the bat behind the back foot then drawing it straight back toward the stumps, was expected to be his undoing on his first Ashes tour of England in 1930.
		Bradman raised his bat towards gully from its resting place between his feet, at an angle close to 45 degrees.
	www.yehhaicricket.com /legends/bradman/art/secret_of_don_bradman_sucess.htm (329 words)

	Sir Donald Bradman - Tribute to The Don
		He so dominated the game that special bowling tactics, known as leg theory or Bodyline, regarded by many as unsporting and dangerous, were devised by England captain Douglas Jardine to reduce his dominance in a series of international matches (Ashes) against England in the Australian summer of 1932-33.
		The principal English exponent of Bodyline was the Nottinghamshire pace bowler Harold Larwood, and the contest between Bradman and Larwood was to prove to be the focal point of the contest.
		On the occasion of his last international innings, Bradman needed four runs to be able to retire with a batting average of 100, but was dismissed for nought (in cricketing parlance, "a duck") by spin bowler Eric Hollies.
	www.abcofcricket.com /Article_Library/art16/art16.htm (981 words)

	Don Bradman - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal
		During his 21 years of first-class cricket, Bradman achieved everything that was possible in the sport - he captained his South Australian Sheffield Shield team; was a State selector; Test selector; and captain of the Australian Team for almost a decade, including of the 1948 Australian Test team known as The Invincibles.
		Donald George Bradman was born on 27 August 1908 in the NSW country town of Cootamundra, moving to Bowral in the Southern Highlands of NSW two and a half years later with his family.
		Bradman was elected to the Australian Board of Control in August 1945, during a five-year hiatus from playing cricket due to severe muscular spasms.
	www.acn.net.au /articles/donbradman (1004 words)

	The Don and the New Master
		Generations of Indians waited for Bradman as they wait for Vishnu's Viswaroopa, that is, for a sight of their idol in the flesh.
		Tendulkar and Bradman are alike in physical appearance, in style of stroke play, and in their overall attitude to the game.
		Unlike Bradman he was born not in the boondocks but in the heart of the cricketing capital of the world.
	members.tripod.com /~stendulkar/donbradman/don10.htm (1558 words)

	Don Bradman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Don Bradman was a small boy, who was very quick on his feet.
		Don left school when he was fourteen and didn't start playing cricket seriously until he was sixteen.
		Don retired with a test cricket average of 99.94.
	www.ermington-p.schools.nsw.edu.au /bradman.htm (582 words)

	Hero- Don Bradman, cricket legend
		Sir Don was born in 1908 and whilst at school used to amuse himself by using a cricket stump to continually hit a golf ball against a water tank, all the time honing a skill that would one day see him as undeniably the greatest batsman of all time.
		In 1930 Bradman was again selected in the Australian team which took six weeks to sail to England, the Series itself was a most successful one with Bradman scoring 974 test runs.
		Donald Bradman was knighted in 1949 and although he has taken on some public roles especially associated with the Australian Cricket Board, he has in the main sought and achieved a very private life.
	upfromaustralia.com /herdonbradcr.html (336 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Australian great Sir Donald Bradman dies at 92 - Monday February 26, 2001 10:08 PM
		SYDNEY (Reuters) -- Sir Donald Bradman, the most prolific batsman in test cricket who died on Sunday aged 92, was idolized by generations of Australians as the greatest sportsman in the country's history.
		During another interview, Bradman, who was knighted in 1949, talked about a game he invented as a boy which, unbeknown to him at the time, helped develop his phenomenal reflexes and timing.
		Those lightning reflexes, which Bradman believed were enhanced by his insistence on using a lighter bat, were put to the severest test during the infamous "Bodyline" series against England in 1932-33.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2001/02/25/bradman_dies_ap/index.html (1639 words)

	OUR DON BRADMAN (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bradman's contribution to the lore of juvenile cricket, by contrast, is one of solitary auto-didacticism, that unique water tank training ritual with golf ball and stump.
		And nothing before or since has paralleled the Caesar-like triumph that Bradman's employer, Mick Simmons Ltd, organised for him when the team returned to Australia, where he travelled independently of his comrades and was plied with public subscriptions and prizes in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Goulburn and Sydney.
		Bradman's playing philosophy - that cricket should not be a career, and that those good enough could profit from other avenues - also seems to have borne on his approach to administration.
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	Sir Don Bradman : The legend lives on....
		Don would have his revenge a couple of years later, when the Aussies went to England in 1930 for a 4 test series.
		He proved to be a nightmare for the English bowlers, as he scored 974 runs in 8 innings.He mesmerised the English fans with his mastery with the willow, and returned to Australia as a super-star, a demi-god.
		Don Bradman is a legend, one whose name with Test cricket will be synonymous.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/batsmen_cricket/59287/3 (354 words)

	Treasures : Item : Don Bradman
		Don Bradman (1908–2001), widely regarded as the greatest batsman in the history of cricket, had a Test average of 99.94, a Test aggregate of 6996 runs, and a total of 117 first-class centuries, including 37 double centuries.
		Bradman’s blazer is from his come-back period, which concluded with Australia’s victorious tour of England in 1948.
		Bradman retired in 1949 and was knighted for services to cricket and Commonwealth relations.
	nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au /index/Treasures/item/nla.int-ex8-s2 (243 words)

	Who is Sir Donald Bradman?
		Sir Donald Bradman, Wisden's Cricketer of the Century was the most successful batsman to ever play test cricket, hitting 29 centuries in his career.
		Sir Donald Bradman, to nobody's surprise, was chosen as the Cricketer of the Century by the respected Wisden Almanack.
		The fanciful interpretation of this is that Bradman was unable to see the ball, obscured as it was by the tears in his eyes.
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	Don Bradman
		If one is reluctant to admit that Bradman was in fact a god, one is still left with the enigmatic problem of his genius and where it came from.
		The story goes that Bradman would practice as a child with a golf ball, hitting it time and again against a wall, over and over again, honing the skill that was eventually to make him what he became.
		Don didn't just wack a ball with a stick, he hit it in a highly controlled and 'inhibited' way, with the factor of repetition as predominant.
	www.freud.org.uk /bradman.html (1134 words)

	Sir Donald Bradman 1908-2001
		Sir Donald Bradman, the greatest Australian cricketer of all time, and in the eyes of many the greatest cricketer from any country, has died at the age of 92.
		Don Bradman, whilst touring with the Australians, played at the old County Ground at Southampton against the county on three occasions.
		Bradman's average of 99.94 is the highest by any Test cricketer.
	www.homestead.com /ctcricket/files/Sir_Donald_Bradman__1908-2001.htm (506 words)

	TIME Pacific \| Farewell to The Don \| March 5, 2001 \| NO. 9
		Feelings for Don Bradman haven¹t changed in the half-century since runs stopped flowing from his blade and won¹t change for his passing, which happened in his sleep on Sunday morning after a bout of pneumonia.
		But Bradman unified and enthralled his country in times of needin the darkness of the Depression, in the gloomy plunge into World War II, in the uncertainty of its aftermathtimes when cricket, Ashes cricket, was the only game that mattered.
		It was a myth that Bradman¹s vision had been blurred by farewell tears, and a myth also that he dismissed the failure as a delightfully ironic denouement.
	www.time.com /time/pacific/magazine/20010305/bradman1.html (1092 words)

	Don Bradman - Stories from Australia's Culture Portal
		During his 21 years of first-class cricket, Bradman achieved everything that was possible in the sport - he captained his South Australian Sheffield Shield team; was a State selector; Test selector; and captain of the Australian Team for almost a decade, including of the 1948 Australian Test team known as The Invincibles.
		Donald George Bradman was born on 27 August 1908 in the NSW country town of Cootamundra, moving to Bowral in the Southern Highlands of NSW two and a half years later with his family.
		Bradman was elected to the Australian Board of Control in August 1945, during a five-year hiatus from playing cricket due to severe muscular spasms.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/donbradman (1082 words)

	Print Article: Bradman letters hint at dalliance
		New letters revealing a side of Don Bradman far from the public myth are causing a small storm about privacy, ethics and the fallibility of sporting heroes.
		Bradman was 22, worshipped, and touring overseas in an environment not unlike that experienced by the country's current sports heroes.
		Richard Mulvaney, director of the Bradman Museum at Bowral, sees it as the latest example of the way the batsman's reputation has been sacrificed in "a mad feeding frenzy" to cash in on any association with him since his death in 2001.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/08/22/1061529337151.html (598 words)

	Profile of Donald Bradman - the greatest cricketer of all time
		Bradman was relegated to 12th man for the 2nd Test, but made amends in the 3rd Test in Melbourne, scoring his first Test century.
		Don Bradman played his first cricket match at age 11 in Bowral.
		Don said to his father "I shall never be satisfied until I play on this ground".
	www.topendsports.com /sport/cricket/profiles/bradman-donald.htm (501 words)

	Don Bradman
		Don Bradman was a small boy who was very quick on his feet.
		Don left school when he was fourteen and didn't start playing cricket seriously until he was sixteen.
		Don retired with a test cricket average of 99.94.
	www.abc.net.au /schoolstv/australians/bradman.htm (628 words)

	Sir Don Bradman - Encyclopedia.com
		Bradman, Sir Don (Donald George) (1908–2001) Australian cricketer and sports administrator, probably the greatest batsmen the game has ever seen.
		Bradman made his test debut for Australia in 1928, and acted as captain from 1936 until his retirement in 1948.
		A new generation applauds the Don Last weekend was the 70th anniversary of Sir Donald Bradman's first of 29 Test centuries.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-BradmanSirDon.html (414 words)

	The Bradman Trail
		Don Bradman playing the piano at Columbia Studios in 1930 during a recording session.
		Don's sister Lilian, who subsequently became a piano teacher, taught her brother how to play piano and later recorded that he had the ability to learn by ear.
		Throughout his life Don Bradman continued to frequently play the piano enjoying it for the relaxation it gave, from the various pressures of his fame.
	www.bradmantrail.com.au /funfact_23.php (274 words)

	The Don Dies
		Donald George Bradman was born at Cootamundra, New South Wales, on 27 August 1908, the fifth and youngest child of George and Emily Bradman.
		Sir Don met Jessica (Jessie) Menzies at school in Bowral and decided to marry her when he was 11 years old.
		Sir Don almost died from appendicitis and peritonitis in 1934 on a cricket tour in England.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/aus_history/62049 (507 words)

	The Fanatics :: Ashes :: Don Bradman
		Don BradmanApproaching forty years of age (most players today are retired by their mid-thirties), he returned to play cricket after World War II, leading one of the most talented teams in Australia's history.
		Bradman so dominated the game that special bowling tactics, known as fast leg theory or Bodyline, regarded by many as unsporting and dangerous, were devised by England captain Douglas Jardine to reduce his dominance in a series of international matches against England in the Australian summer of 1932—1933.
		The principal English exponent of Bodyline was the Nottinghamshire pace bowler Harold Larwood, and the contest between Bradman and Larwood was to prove to be the focal point of the competition.
	www.thefanatics.com /ashes/index.php?id=361 (958 words)

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