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The Paddock that Grew: The Story of the Melbourne Cricket Club
Covers all aspects of the history of the Melbourne Cricket Club. Photos. Index.
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Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall
Book by Greg de Moore entitled "Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall" This is the story of Tom Wills - flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules Football.
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Warne to be cast in bronze
Newspaper clipping announcing that Shane Warne's will be the next statue to take its place in Yarra Park. It will be the first of the Australia Post Avenue of Champions. Louis Laumen will be the sculptor as he has been for the previous statues.
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Who needs a car?
Rebecca and her daughter and dog demonstrate a popular form of local transport used by parents to convey their small children between East Melbourne and Melbourne Girls Grammar School in Anderson Street, South Yarra.