Lives in Cricket No 28 - Keith Carmody

133 made, and nor is David Frith who contributed a number of helpful comments on a late draft. I’m fortunate that a senior honorary research fellowship at the University of Western Australia continues to provide office, library access, computer support and other privileges essential to my continuing research in Australian and American history as well as helping me produce the three cricket books that ACS has agreed to publish in the last few years. All of those three, however, as well as 60,000 words of a half-written book on Australian/American relations, have been written in the café of the University Club. To single out any of the wonderful staff who’ve indulged me with a reserved table marked ‘Tony’ would be to risk offending others, so I thank them all for their unfailing good humour that has made writing even more of a pleasure than it’s always been. And of course I thank my family: Rosie my wife for her continuing moral and practical support for this and all the other projects that make old age a delight; and my daughters, their husbands and my nine grandchildren for tolerating – maybe welcoming – my preoccupation with cricket, rugby and history of many kinds. For the third time in four years, I gratefully acknowledge the mixture of good humour and professional expertise that make David Jeater a peerless editor – a judgement based on dealings with seven others who have helped and sometimes hindered me in the past. I am grateful too for the skill and expertise of Richard Shaw and his colleagues in designing and typesetting the book and to Kit Bartlett and John Ward for their proofreading. Crawley, Western Australia September 2012 Acknowledgements