A. A. Thomson
cricketer and author (1894–1968)
Arthur Alexander Thomson MBE (7 April 1894 – 2 June 1968) was an English writer best known for his books on cricket. He was born at Harrogate, Yorkshire, and died near Lord's in London.
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Quotes
edit- 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)