- 2000 edition. 280 pages.
- Published by Celebrity Books, NZ
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Black Boards.
- Good plus condition. Some shelf wear, scuffs to dust jacket.
The Untold Story of The All Black Test Captains. Illustrated and Indexed. Illustrated inside both boards.
The All Black Test Captains have always been special - a select group who were surely born to lead.
The feats of the team, called the All Blacks since 1905, became legend. Year in, year out, through the decades of the late 19th century, throughout the 20th century and now into the new millennium, they have forged an international record no other team can match.
Many age-old questions are asked and answered in Born to Lead. How Porter came to hate his manager and whether the controversial Mark Nicholls was behind the coup that ousted Ces Badeley from the captaincy of the 1924 Invincibles?
What did Maurice Brownlie really think of George Nepia? Was Charlie Saxton robbed of the chance to be All Black captain? How JJ Stewart broke the heart of a future All Black captain, how Frank Oliver was asked to captain the 1978 team that became the first All Black Grand Slammers. And why he turned it down.
For the first time, as a body, these 56 often great leaders are studied in an attempt to understand what drove them to countless victories and to acknowledge their contribution to a nation's growing pride.
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