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...Feelings for Don Bradman haven't changed in the half-century since runs stopped flowing from his blade?and won't change for his passing, which happened in his sleep on the morning of Feb. 24 after a bout of pneumonia...
...great was Bradman? If Tiger Woods dominates golf for another 15 years, perhaps he will have a peer. For now, no other sport has seen his like. Dissenters have suggested he wasn't the most marvelous, that some other batsman was more elegant, another more powerful or charismatic. But always Bradman's record destroys their claim. Between 1928 and 1948 he played 52 Tests, in which he scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94. For cricket followers, it is that average, pondered even for the thousandth time, which bewilders. The next best: South African Graeme Pollock...
...obsessed are they with sports that even today Australians claim the No. 1 national hero in their country's entire history is Don Bradman. Don who? No, Bradman didn't lead Australia to political independence (in fact, Aussies still bow to Britain's Queen Elizabeth) or fight off the Japanese during World War II. Rather he was a spectacular cricket player in the 1930s and '40s. It's rather like comparing Babe Ruth with George Washington...
...this central quartet of characters, a comic trio is added. Elizabeth Dibbern as the Condomines' space cadet maid affects a Cockney accent that no doubt would make Eliza Doolittle proud. Both Blake Spraggins as Dr. Bradman and Valerie Steiker as Mrs. Bradman have enviable English accents. Yet it is the timing of these actors that makes their performances so strong...
...fearsome Australians. England's team had achieved a draw when rain halted play. But weather notwithstanding, Britons began to see England as the Aussies' equal for the first time in 20 years. For one thing, Australia is now without its famed batsman, the retired Sir Don Bradman. And against Australia's great Bowler Ray Lindwall, who can take his 20-yd. running start and fling the ball at close to 90 m.p.h.. England could pit some formidable batsmen of its own. Among them: Captain Len Hutton, who holds the record for runs scored in a test...