Fitz's Column 13 Dec 08

[travelling_gerry]

What am I bid?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/sai...585117521.html

Last week, TFF asked readers to nominate things that might be worth more than Bradman's baggy green cap and I have since been inundated. True, there was no standout nomination that would have blown the cap away - if not the rather waspish suggestion of "Bradman's wartime memorabilia" - but certainly Phar Lap's heart and the actual Ashes would come in higher than Bradman's baggy green. And here are the best of the rest.
� Dennis Lillee's aluminium bat. (Dinkum, where is it these days?)
� The flag Dawn Fraser nicked in Tokyo. (And where is that?)
� The ball Trevor Chappell used to bowl the underarm delivery. (Does anyone know?)
� Steve Bradbury's ice skates �c
� The ball that struck the back of the net when John Aloisi scored the winning penalty in the World Cup qualifier against Uruguay in 2005.
� Steve Waugh's red hankie.
� Heather Mackay's squash racquet.
� The famous ball Shane Warne bowled to Mike Gatting.
� Cathy Freeman's hooded running suit.
� Ricky Stuart's dummy.

[GIGS20]

Too late, the last one was spit a long time ago!

[Scotty]

Dennis' bat and the underarm ball are both actually in the WACA museum. I highly recommend anyone going to the cricket to take a tour for the princely sum of $2 during lunch.

It also has a nice photo of nine men in the slips against Zimbabwe. I defy any cricket fan not to need the stitches and thread after seeing that one.

[Burgs]

The Gatting ball might come close and the Ashes and Phar Laps heart for sure, but I reckon they are dreaming with the others, a whole different league.
But then, I guess you only need two people to really want something...

[oxleymoron]

Freeman's suit is in the National sports muesum at the MCG

[tragic]