Heart of dart-ness
Boulting, Ned2019
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In 'Heart of Dart-ness,' TV's Ned Boulting sets out to answer the forty-something year old question: what, exactly is darts? Is it a sport, a freak show, a side-show, a pantomime, a riot or a party? From Purfleet to Minehead, Milton Keynes to Frankfurt, Ned embarks on a journey back to the beginning of the modern game. He tracks down some of the household names who graced childhood television screens and are still among us; names such as Andy Fordham, whose fifty bottles of Pils a day led to his near death on the oche, Cliff Lazarenko, whose prodigious drinking was the stuff of legend even among his not exactly abstemious peer-group, Phil Taylor, the greatest of all time, as well as the Europeans, Michael van Gerwen, and Raymond van Barneveld. Is it entertainment or exploitation?
Main title:
Heart of dart-ness / Ned Boulting.
Author:
Boulting, Ned, author
Imprint:
London : Blink, 2019.
Collation:
ix, 342 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.
ISBN:
9781788702119 (pbk)
Dewey class:
794.3
Language:
English
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BRN:
387974
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