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Balls to Fly by Ricky Ellock

Balls to Fly by Ricky Ellock

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The autobiography of Old Malvernian Ricardo Ellcock (SH.81-82) tells the story of a Barbadian schoolboy who left his family behind to move overseas and follow his sporting dreams. With a burgeoning reputation as one of the fastest bowlers in the land, Ellcock’s hopes of playing Test cricket for England were cruelly thwarted by injury. Plunged into depression and forced to pursue another career, a childhood interest in aviation was to be his salvation. Ellcock relocated to the USA and qualified as a commercial airline pilot, becoming the first black captain with Virgin Atlantic.

Ellcock’s autobiography is unsparing and hard-hitting, revealing as it does a lifetime spent overcoming biases, prejudices and racism, not to mention being saved from death by receiving four life-saving brain operations in the space of eight weeks. Balls to Fly charts one man’s extraordinary story of determination, endeavour and resilience.

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