A collection of mid-to-late 20th-century cricket memorabilia and publications, primarily focused on Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The group includes hardcover books by Geoffrey Boycott titled Opening Up and Boycott: The Autobiography. Also included are several editions of The Twelfth Man, the Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society annual magazine, featuring tributes to Geoffrey Boycott and Basil D Oliveira. Historical booklets comprise A Century of Yorkshire County Cricket published by The Yorkshire Post and The Story of Cricket at Bramall Lane. Ephemera includes a blue cloth-bound 1972 Yorkshire C.C.C. yearbook, a 1979 Yorkshire County Members Reform Group annual dinner program, and Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society event menus. Notable among the ephemera is a 1978 menu for a tribute to Brian Close, which bears a signature, and a 1977 menu for a tribute to Raymond Illingworth.
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