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| Product Information | |||
| Date published | August 2011 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pages | 432 pages | ||
| Format | Hardback | ||
| Size | 30mm x 245mm x 170mm | ||
| Weight | 800 g | ||
| ISBN | 978-1-921778-32-2 | ||
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The Grand Finals Volume 1: 1897-1938
Ashley Browne
- Overview
- The Author
- Media
Overview
There is no greater prize in Australian team sport than the VFL/AFL premiership flag. Premiership players are forever recognised and their deeds of their teams long celebrated. This book, the first in a three-volume series, recounts in details the players, the officials, the matches and the other key events that shaped the premiership team every year. The Grand Finals themselves are also recounted in great detail while the key statistics for the premiership teams are also featured.
This book covers Grand Finals from the period 1897-1938 and is the first volume in a series to provide a complete view of every premiership team in every year of Australia's elite football competition.
Among the contributors are: Emma Quayle (The Age), Rohan Connolly (The Age), John Harms (The Footy Almanac), Paul Daffey (afl.com.au), Jim Main, Glenn McFarlane(Herald Sun), Michael Lovett (AFL Record) and Robert Pascoe.
About the editor
Ashley Browne
Ashley Browne has been an AFL writer and editor for the past 20 years, for The Age, Sportal and afl.com.au. He is the founding editor of sports blog site www.backpagelead.com.au and since October 2010 has been Managing Editor, AFL Books, for Slattery Media. He is also a former national editor of The Australian Jewish News.
Look inside
3AW, Sports Today, Monday, September 26, 2011
Geoff Slattery chats with Dwayne Russell and Bruce Eva about the Grand Finals, Volume 1: 1987 - 1938 book. The three discuss how the book will never date, as there is no new information out there about the 1897 - 1938 flags.
2011 Toyota AFL Grand Final Record, Saturday, October 1, 2011
The AFL Record run an extract from Grand Finals, Volume 1: 1987 - 1938 in the Grand Final edition.
3AW, Nightline with Bruce & Phil, Sunday, September 11, 2011
Ashley Browne speaks with 3AW's Bruce & Phil about the Grand Finals Volume 1: 1897 - 1938, they touch on the first premiers in history, Essendon.
The Footy Show, Thursday, August 26, 2011
Sam Newman displays the Grand Finals, Volume 1: 1897 -1938 book on The Footy Show and describes it as a 'must have'.
MTR1377, The Steve Price Breakfast Show, Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Steve Price, Sam Newman and Geoff Slattery discuss the new book, Grand Finals Volume 1: 1897 - 1938. Geoff Slattery tells how each writer that contributed was given the brief to cover the time, place, social environment, how the club built to the grand final and what was happening in Melbourne at that time for each grand final covered in the book.