Chequered Flag Publishing: 18 books

He was one of Wales’ greatest athletes. But he could have been even greater. Cecil Griffiths won an Olympic gold medal in 1920. Then his running career was shattered, banned by the athletics authorities for receiving prize money in wartime charity races as a junior. Although this working-class...

Prodigy. Record breaker. Enigma. Jack Crawford, described as the greatest ever schoolboy cricketer, blazed into the Surrey team at the age of seventeen and broke a host of records: the youngest Surrey centurion and double centurion, the youngest player to achieve the double of 100 wickets...

Four players, three generations, two counties, one famous family. The mourners who attended the funeral of Daniel Hayward in 1852 lamented the loss of a fine cricketer, but little did they realise that his family would continue to star in English cricket for another 60 years. One son was a...

parkrun – a stunningly simple concept. Every Saturday morning, tens of thousands of people, all ages and sizes, gather at their local park to run, jog or walk five kilometres. parkrun is about taking part, no matter how fast you go or how long it takes you to finish. parkrun is open to all,...