A. A. Thomson Quotes

Arthur Alexander Thomson, was an English writer best known for his books on cricket, for which he used the byline "AA Thomson". He wrote nearly 60 books in all, including plays, novels, verse, humour and travel books. Before turning his hand to cricket writing, he was a drama critic and a columnist for the Radio Times and for a Sunday newspaper, while working also as a civil servant. Wikipedia

✵ 7. April 1894 – 2. June 1968

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A. A. Thomson Quotes

“I had devoted too much of my life to this utterly irrational game. I would chuck the whole thing and take to Strindberg for amusement.”

Cricket My Happiness (1954), ASIN: B0000CIWJT

“It is both a pointless and a churlish thing to praise the old days at the expense of the new, though there are a number of things a man might reasonably have preferred to commercial television and the hydrogen bomb.”

Odd Men In (1958)

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