The creator ofPeter Pan, J.
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Cricket lovers will identify with Barrie\'s attempts to assemble a team of competent players.
In Peter PAN\'S First XI, Kevin Telfer weaves together cricket, literature, history, humour and biography to create an entertaining account of this little-known band of cricketing Peter Pans - and the age in which they lived..
This very Edwardian vision of village cricket was only brought to an end by the First World War.
Those years of golden summers were recounted in Barrie\'s letters and journals, many revealed here for the First time.
Jerome, regularly turned out for Barrie\'s team between 1890 and 1913.
Wodehouse and Jerome K.
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Milne, P.
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Some of the twentieth century\'s most famous writers including A.
That didn\'t stop him from leading perhaps the most extraordinary amateur cricket team ever to have taken the field.
Barrie, was a hugely enthusiastic cricketer of very little talent.
The creator ofPeter Pan, J.
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