Twenty-One Years of the ACS

the Pakistani and minor counties' areas - had to take second place in his priorities. Trushell's conscientiousness never wavered though his ACS work had to be fitted around other responsibilities that included eight children and an exacting job as a supervisor in a Grimsby factory. In the summers, too, there were involvements as committee member and scorer with Lincolnshire and in 1989 he served as the county president. Trushell possesses the most complete records of the minor counties game in existence.Hecontinued to provide the biographies for the ACS minor counties annual after relinquishing the treasurership. Trushell was an ^ active participant in several sports in ? North Lincolnshire in his younger ^ days and he and his wife,Violet,also T' shared competitive ballroom dancing ^ as a hobby. The Minor Counties Annual was first launched as a Who's Who in 1976 under the 1 editorship of Robert Brooke,assisted Ken Trushell by Brian Hunt and Jack Burrell. Though losing money in the early years, it has always provided an invaluable service and has withstood competition from more than one rival. After David Armstrong became secretary,the Minor Counties Cricket Association since 1984 has paid half the production costs in return for half the print run and Armstrong has been the annual's general editor. Both parties have benefited from these arrangements. Trushell It detracts nothing from the milestone represented by the start of the pre-1900 match scores' series in 1979 to claim that the period from 1984 to 1990 was the most fruitful and innovative in ACS publishing so far. There was no let-up to the appearances of the Journal and other regular booklets but these were halcyon years, which saw the start of the series on county grounds,famous players and the annual statistical surveys.The International Year Book and the Second XI Annual - first suggested by Frank Peach - were launched and overdue acknowledgment to the limited overs game was made with booklets on international one-day records by Vic Isaacs and Bob Whitham and Sunday