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Peter’s father had taken him to Myer store in Melbourne, where Bradman was signing cricket bats under some sponsorship arrangement.

Peter also met The Don when he was a boy. I also have a second-hand contact with Bradman through another old friend, the late Peter Hill. It would have robbed us of Gil becoming one of Australia’s most gifted park rangers and an expert in environmental interpretation. To his father’s chagrin, the experience did not lead to Gil becoming a champion international cricketer, although I do not share that disappointment. It became a highlight in the Field family history. Gil was only about six years old at the time, but still remembers the great man gravely shaking his hand, and the awe which surrounded the occasion. Gil told me once that when he had been a boy growing up in South Australia in the early 1950s, his father had taken him to the Adelaide Oval one day and contrived to introduce him to The Don. Yes, I knew Bradman … although it was only at second and third-hand.Īt second-hand is my friend Gil Field, a colleague in departmental days. It was a 1920s hit ‘I danced with a man who danced with a girl who danced with the Prince of Wales !’ I am reminded of this line when I reflect on my association with the cricketing icon Don Bradman. I wonder if anyone else remembers the BBC television program shown on the ABC many years ago, a historical drama about the rise and fall of King Edward VIII? I have forgotten the title.

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