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This is a history of speedway at the West Ham stadium, from its first-ever dirt track meeting in 1928 to its final season in 1971. Exhaustively researched and supplemented with detailed statistical appendixes, this is a nostalgic but worthy tribute to the track heroes of a bygone era.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
This is an original and romantic view of speedway and of its West Ham roots. Lots of interesting detail, and such an nice change from the usual dirge of statistics. So, if you are a popeyed, speedway stats nut stay away, but if you are a lover of the unusual and have a need to be lifted by a book this one is for you.
The book is full of some wonderful photos and Belton's family links to West Ham come through well, giving 'Hammerin' Round' a life rarely found in sporting books and hardly ever in the boring, tedious fact files that drag the history of the sport into the mundane.
Thank you Tempus and thank you Brian Belton
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
This is a truely different sporting book, full of the best kind of passionate writing and taking the reader on a journey - fine detail, balanced with humour and pathos. This is a true east ender's point of view, a fan and not an anorak...do yourself a favour and read it!!!
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
This is a book that will make you laugh, cry and, above all think! It seems the writer is the thinking person's sports nut. He tells a wonderful tale, in a way that I have not come across before when looking at this type of book, this makes the finished product both refreshing and informative. I have read all of Belton's books and this fits in with his style and verve. Read it if you are an open minded person and if you are one of those creeps that lurks around sports books counters reading the appendices, best try something else dear. Incidently Belton does mention the Cundy Trophy, which in its day was not seen in the same light as the big solo titles or the league and the edition I read was faultless factually. Most of the photos have never been published before.
I really hope there is more like this on the way.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Really the best book on Speedway
This is a fine book, so well written, on the sport and spirit of speedway. It is one of the few books on the game that is worth reading. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2003 by Ted Bristow
The Best Ever Book On Speedway
I just had to write to say that this is a fine little book with lots of great photos - it charts the history of the Hammers in a way only a local person could, this writer is no... Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2003 by Rosy Adriaenssens
Very Disappointing
I was very disappointed by this book. It had nothing new to say and what it did say seemed to have a lot of mistakes in it. Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2003 by Jerry Butcher
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