Sport
Frank Laver: The Colosus of Jolimont
A report of the talk given by Ian Woodward on the occasion of the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Cricket Society. Frank Laver was an East Melbourne, Victorian and Australian Test allrounder whose career spanned 23 years from 1891-1914.
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The Early Days of Women's Cricket
With the MCG within its boundaries East Melbourne has more than its fair share of sporting stories.
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Vernon Ransford: the elegant left-hander
The holiday season is with us, and top level cricket at the MCG makes its seasonal appearance in the East Melbourne area, the high point being the Boxing Day Test, this year being an Ashes series against England. The MCG was of course the place where Test cricket was born in 1877, and was also the venue of the first One Day International in January 1971.
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Yarra Park, from Go to Woe
When Charles Joseph La Trobe arrived in Melbourne in 1839 as the newly appointed superintendent of the colony of Port Phillip he would have found the north bank of the Yarra, just east of the city,