Author: Margaret Roberts

3rd Sharing their birthday with your Playing Pasts Editor in chief [penblwydd hapus i mi, so happy...

27th On this day in past years three English Cricketers were born – firstly in 1863 Arthur Mold...

20th  Born in America  in 1886, John Jacob Astor came to England as a 5 year old child and became...

13th On this day in 1905 James J Jeffries retired as boxing champion.  Today in 1909 saw the very...

6th America’s best known horse race, the Kentucky Derby, was first run in 1875.  The event is...