1. The Story of the Hawthorn Football Club : One For All
by Harry and Michael Gordon 
Price: USD 37.00
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Description: ISBN10: 1921332832, ISBN13: 9781921332838, [publisher: Wilson Publishing] Hardcover First Edition Book condition is near fine. Hard cover. 1st edition. Book block clean. Book boards clean front and back. Dust jacket very good except for tear top of Spine area, fix with acid free sticky tape. Text body clean. Spine of book good, no damage. Overall an great and neat copy. Two newspapermen - a father and son - with an eye for life's larger stories and a body of work which ranges from covering the Korean War to conveying a sensitive underlying if indigenous Australia, set out to write a book about the football club they live. Or, rather the father writes a history of the club which ends with the Grand Final if 1989, one of the greatest grand finals of the 20th century abd a Hawthorn triumph, and the son updates nit so that the 2008 premiership becomes part of the story that begins in Meaney's Paddock and a nearby pub called the Hawthorne Hotel in the 1870'.nif you live the club, you'll live this book. If you hate the club,vyou'll be fool not to read it. Find out how they've won 10 premierships since Kohn Kennedy, a character who comes booming to life these pages,vtook the Hawks, previously the Korean of the competition, vto their first-ever flag in 1961. Excellently reported, crisply convey, brimming with characters like Don Scott, vthe man who "saved " the club when it nearly merged in 1996, this book pump's with a life that will make it the envy of most AFL club histories. Extra charges for oversea postage as the book weight is over 500grams. [Boyanup, WA, Australia] [Publication Year: 2009]