If I had to choose between my wife and my putter... well, I’d miss her.
Jack Hobbs
Return to the book list for this category.
Various
Jack Hobbs (1992-1963) played 61 test for England scoring 5,410 runs including 13 centuries at an average of 56.94. In his career he scored 199 centuries and 61,760 runs at an average of just over 50. He wrote an autobiography (My Life Story – Jack Hobbs 1981) and was the subject of an least 3 biographies (Jack Hobbs: Profile of the Master, John Arlott, 1981, Jack Hobbs, England’s finest cricketer, Leo McKinistry, 2010 and Jack Hobbs, Ronald Mason,1988.
There are several references to his Christian faith. He himself wrote: “The atmosphere in which I was brought up was distinctly religious. There was a Sunday morning and Sunday evening in the choir, and Sunday School twice each Sunday. Tuesdays saw me at the Youth branch, Wednesdays at Evensong, and Thursdays at choir practice. I read the Bible in the Sunday School and during the dull parts of sermons. I think that all young people shou;d read it as a great guide to life and a standard of values.”
Arlott called him “A religious and moral man, he had too much humour and humanity ever to be smug..he was unquestionably a good man”. Mason, said that Hobbs “sang in church choirs and..attended Sunday School with exemplary regularity”.
McKinstry refers to him as a “a devout Christian in the Anglican Church”