Whether on the ball or fitting the Bill, these two recent releases show our national game at its best.
Sonny Ball – The Legend of Sonny Bill Williams
While SBW certainly cuts an impressive figure on the field, he has made some of sports’ most controversial moves on it, too. In Sonny Ball, journalist and author, Paul Kent, reveals the details behind Sonny’s code switching and why organisations moved away from almost sacred principles to accommodate his mighty talent. In professional sport, success is currency, memories are short, loyalty is overrated and star power eclipses everything!
Whether on the ball or fitting the Bill, these two recent releases show our national game at its best.
Sonny Ball – The Legend of Sonny Bill Williams
While SBW certainly cuts an impressive figure on the field, he has made some of sports’ most controversial moves on it, too. In Sonny Ball, journalist and author, Paul Kent, reveals the details behind Sonny’s code switching and why organisations moved away from almost sacred principles to accommodate his mighty talent. In professional sport, success is currency, memories are short, loyalty is overrated and star power eclipses everything!
Paul Kent: Sonny Ball – The Legend of Sonny Bill Williams, RRP $39.99, published by MacMillan Publishers New Zealand.
Rugby – A New Zealand History
From the 1888 Natives tour to the 2015 World Cup, from games in the North African desert in the Second World War to matches behind barbed wire during the 1981 Springbok tour, New Zealanders have made rugby their game. Author and historian, Ron Palenski, tells the story of our obsession with the oval ball code in this impressive hardback tome.
Ron Palenski: Rugby – A New Zealand History, RRP $69.99, published by Auckland University Press.
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