Cricket's Historians

The World of Cricket Peach remained editor until 1982 – he also served as an official of the Derbyshire’s Supporters’ Club and on the County Club Committee. Very meticulous, Peach preferred to delay publication of the Yearbook by a week or two, rather than rush any final proof-reading or checking. He was later the author of Derbyshire Cricketers in the ACS series. He died in Derby in February 1996. Frank Dawn, who compiled the local club section of the Yearbook, was educated at Bemrose School in Derby. He was a useful club cricketer, but better known as an administrator both in Derbyshire and at a national level. Alfred Frank Dawn died at his home in Derby in May 1983, aged 74. The yearbook created by Peach and Dawn was a model which many other counties strove to emulate but few, if any achieved. Essex The 1961 Handbook was produced as a commercial venture by M.L.Pepper (Publicity) Ltd of Harrow. The firm also published handbooks for Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Sussex. Essex’s book, edited by the England all-rounder (and County Secretary) Trevor Bailey was 152 pages long and cost two shillings. There was a very abbreviated Record Section of seven pages by John E Clay (see Chapter 10), plus season- by-season figures for two or three notable Essex players. The handbook did however publish full scores of both First and Second XI matches. By 1970 the handbook had shrunk to 124 pages costing 2s 6d, and the record section and the full Second XI scores had gone. The editor was C.A.Brown, who had also taken over from Trevor Bailey as Club Secretary – he was appointed in 1967 and retired in 1972. M.L.Pepper remained as publishers. Glamorgan The 1961 Yearbook was a very modest affair of 112 pages, costing two shillings. It listed all members, but without addresses. There were full first-class county scorecards with short reports and a three page Record Section. One assumes that the Club Secretary, Wilf Wooller, was the editor. He is listed as such in the 1970 edition, when the contents remained as in 1961, but the price had risen to three shillings. 189