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BULL, DAVID: : DELL DIAMOND: Ted Bate's first 60 seasons with The Saints. [Foreword by Terry Paine.]

UK.BRISTOL.HAGIOLOGY PUBLISHING,1998.

ISBN 0953447405.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st reprint edn. [First published Novemeber,1998.This edition,the first reprint in the following month, December, 1998.Though a reprint this edition does contain a few minor modifications,mostly to the list of subscribers.One correction has been made to the text.A check on the accuracy of facts of a setback against Birmingham in the 1966 promotion run-in was at home - see page 245 - and not away as ststed in the 1st edn.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,red background with subject's sepia portrait photograph to front panel of dw/dj with b/w lettering,b/w letters+black, red+white publisher's colophon to spine/ backstrip,rear panel with colour thumbnail, subject's presentation photograph and black lettered list of names of contributor's conversations for the biography; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - one tiny closed tear to front,top corner's but tip no other nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters and publisher's colophon to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st reprint edn,xi-xviii+1-346pp [paginated] includes author's Preface with a note of the new print-run - this edn,28 chapters,profuse b/w photographs: players portraits,match photographs,b/w illustrations and b/w ephemera reproduction photographs - newspapers,match programmes etc.,and b/w illustrations interspersed throughout the text and the book,sources and subscribers list (numbering 735); plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,subject's b/w caricature portrait, contents list/table,thumbnail b/w photograph (subject and Terry Paine) illustrated Terry Paine foreword and to the rear,single page publisher's advert and 2pp blanks. What price loyalty? If loyalty were even modestly rewarded in football today,Matthew Le Tissier would not have been persistently pilloried as 'unambitious' for wishing to to remain with Southampton. So what price TED BATES who has been at The Dell ever since 1937? How unanbitious can you get? Arriving as a player on his 19th birthday,he has since filled eight different posts at The Dell,becoming President in 1998,shortly before his 80th birthday. But some things haven't changed.Former team-mates,players he managed,later managers and other staff,directors and his family,all testify to his enduring ommitment to the Saints and his passion for football - as a game demanding devotion and hard work.And loyalty if you can get it. This book tells the story of Ted Bates's first 60 seasons with the Saints.It is a story of working to overcome limited resources - first his own and then the Club's. As a player,Ted Bates had no hugely enviable talent,apart from an ability to jump higher that you ould expect of a 5ft 9ins inside-forward.And yet he was much admired by team-mates for finding space to receive the ball,for getting it accurayely to his wingers and,most of all,for diving in where it hurt to score 'impossible' goals. As a manager,he brought Southanpton from Division Three to Division One on next to nothing,starting with an astute three-for-one deal in 1959 that complemented his successful youth policy.Then,beginning with Ron Davies in 1966,he found the blend to take the Saints into Europe. Since handing over in 1973 to Lawrie McMeneny, he has continued to go to every home game amd most away games - forever seizing opportunities to talk football with a succession of heirs and to give incoming directors an induction to what the game is all about. Please contact seller,because of the weight - nearly 1200 gms unpackaged - for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. That offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st reprint.
Not SIGNED.

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