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...which you might say, so what? These are hardly grave faults. A new biography of a Bradman contemporary, however, takes the sideshow of trying to demythologize the batting maestro to a new level. The title, Jack Fingleton: The Man Who Stood Up to Bradman (Allen & Unwin; 302 pages) hints that the book is as much about Bradman as Fingleton, a gritty opening batsman who played 18 Tests for Australia in the 1930s and later penned several of cricket's most acclaimed books, including Brightly Fades The Don, a stylish account of Bradman's final appearances for Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knocking Down The Don | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...Born a few months apart in 1908, Fingleton and Bradman were team-mates but never friends. On their first meeting, they had a Pride and Prejudice moment that set the tone of their relationship. Fingleton mispronounced the word tetanus, and Bradman corrected him with what Fingleton, a highly sensitive man except, it seems, where the feelings of others were concerned, perceived as scorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knocking Down The Don | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...what’s next for Tony Fingleton? He’s been pitching another film, a work of fiction called “Ten Years Ago,” and he says that it’s finally about to go before the cameras...

Author: By April B. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tony Fingleton's Victory Lap | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

Before we part ways, Fingleton spreads his hands, as if to encompass the lounge of the Inn at Harvard, Harvard Square, and the entire campus. “And here I am today as a result of having gone to this place,” he says...

Author: By April B. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tony Fingleton's Victory Lap | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...Tony Fingleton is a paradox. A boy with an unimaginably painful childhood who grew into a man overwhelmingly boyish in his optimism and energy. A victim of enormous pressures as a youth who channeled his angst into a remarkable, inspirational film. A recruited athlete who found his calling among the ranks of the cross-dressing comic actors of the Pudding. Tony Fingleton is living, breathing, grinning proof that it can happen here...

Author: By April B. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tony Fingleton's Victory Lap | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

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