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Melbourne Cricket Club Library, MCG

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: 9657 8876

Address: Melbourne Cricket Ground, Brunton Avenue 3002 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 https://instagram.com/p/BAZjIqQxDUt/ vale David Bowie. (Who remembers looking out the train window to check the Next Event sign on the back of original Ponsford Stand?)

24.01.2022 A special "in conversation" with Mark Pennings, Geoffrey Blainey and John Harms on September 22, at 1pm. All welcome!

24.01.2022 We look forward to this book launch with Don on August 31, all welcome

23.01.2022 Vale Betty Cuthbert AM MBE. Betty was a delight to assist on the day of the unveiling of her statue at the MCG. She was so excited and proud of her achievements. Rightfully so!

23.01.2022 one of the highlights of the ICC Women's T20World Cup was the number of wide-eyed young girls that visited the library during their first MCG experience. Many took the opportunity to sit and enjoy reading some of the collection. https://www.instagram.com/p/B9dmWN7h9_J/

23.01.2022 Very proud to be hosting the launch of this book on September 5

21.01.2022 All 3 volumes of Pennings Origins of Australian Football available today at the launch of V3

20.01.2022 Our next book function, on October 13. All welcome. RSVP details attached.

18.01.2022 RE https://twitter.com/fiery68/status/774156563447554049 Tim Fearn-Wannan captured a beautiful rainbow and sunset as the crowds stream into the ground before tonights AFL Qualifying Final between Geelong and Hawthorn.

16.01.2022 Thanks to Alissa Duke Art for capturing our annual Melbourne Rare Book Week "In Conversation" so well. Very impressed.

16.01.2022 Our Rare Book Week 2016 Event RARE SPORTS BOOKS AND EPHEMERA at the Melbourne Cricket Club Library July 20, 2016 2-3:30pm... Gideon Haigh, John Harms, Russell Jackson with special guests interviewed by MCC Librarian David Studham After two successful Melbourne Rare Book Week seminars, our panel returns to cover rare sporting collections, publications and publishers as well as look at rare Australian sporting and Olympic ephemera. This will be followed by Q and A with those in attendance. RSVP Essential - [email protected] Venue: Melbourne Cricket Club Library Address: Level 3, Members Stand, Melbourne Cricket Ground, East Melbourne Phone: 96578876

16.01.2022 The MCC Library will be closed to the public for the Grand Final public holiday on Friday September 30, as we undertake final preparations for the AFL Grand final on Saturday October 1 and MCG Open Day on Sunday October 2.

15.01.2022 We open at 5pm on Friday for members, their guests & media attending our first AFL Final for 2016. The match-day fact sheet can now be downloaded from the library catalogue homepage

14.01.2022 It was the friday before Christmas and all the through the Melbourne Cricket Club Library was heard the hum of the photocopier. It is printing fact sheets in preparation for the Boxing Day Test. A merry band of the Library Volunteers are here, battling paper cuts and tennis elbow to fold the first batches in readiness for the members and media to descend upon us first thing after the opening of the gates on December 26, as they come in search of knowledge, statistics, as well as an entertaining read.

12.01.2022 Our friends at ESPNCricinfo visited the MCC Library in the lead up to the Boxing Day Test http://www.espncricinfo.com/video/clip?id=21890240

11.01.2022 The Coodabeen Champions are broadcasting from directly below us in the library and the bands music is wafting up to the library entertaining our clients. RE https://twitter.com/Coodabeens/status/782004883004137472

11.01.2022 Kirby Fenwick was recently in to research womens football. Here are some thoughts on her experience.

09.01.2022 The MCC Library factsheet for Dreamtime at the G looks at the ABORIGINAL ALL STARS ON THE MCG matches. See http://mcc.softlinkhosting.com.au/liberty3/welcome.do for more details

08.01.2022 Yes, we are open November 7, for the last day of the Sheffield Shield match on Melbourne Cup Day. One of our volunteers James, had a quick look to see when the last first-class match was played on the MCG on Cup Day. He had to go back to 1963 when it was another match between the same two teams as this year, Vic v. S.A. The match started on Friday 1st and with no play on the Sunday, finished on Tuesday 5th.... James discovered that some very famous names appeared in this match on both teams... "Sir Garfield Sobers for S.A. and Ian Huntington for Vic.! Not to mention Ian Chappell, Les Favell, John Lill, Neil Hawke and Barry Jarman for S.A., and Bill Lawry, Ian Redpath, Bob Cowper, Keith Stackpole, Ian Meckiff and Alan Connolly for Vic. According to Cricket Archive a total crowd of 12,454 watched the match, with the largest crowd, 3884, being on Cup Day. Although the match was drawn, largely due to an unbeaten 137 from Les Favell in the second innings, the Croweaters had a victory on the track with Gatum Gatum, ridden by Jimmy Johnson, saluting at Flemington." We hope you enjoy Cup Day 2017, at either Flemington, or the MCG.

08.01.2022 In honour of this evenings Battle of Lone Pine centenary commemoration taking place at Gallipoli, and the 100th anniversary of the Battle of The Nek tomorrow, today we commemorate the four MCC Members killed in these two battles: PRIVATE HAROLD GORDON CRAIG Wounded in the Landing at Gallipoli. He died at sea on August 8, 1915, two days after he was wounded in the attack on Lone Pine.... TROOPER ARCHIBALD ROLAND KNIGHT He was one of three MCC Members killed in the charge at The Nek on August 7, 1915. He is commemorated at the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli. A notice in The Argus described him as The staunchest pal that ever lived. He died, as he lived, playing the game. LIEUTENANT EDWIN BENNETT SPARGO Served in the Landing at Gallipoli. He was killed in action at German Officers Trench on August 7, 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated in the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli. LANCE CORPORAL ARTHUR NORMAN TETLEY He was in the first line in the charge at The Nek on August 7, 1915. Like most, he fell within a few yards. Dreadfully wounded by machine-gun fire, he died the following day aboard a hospital ship. Commemorated at Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli. Photo of Lone Pine cemetery and memorial taken by MCC Library Volunteer Ann Rusden

04.01.2022 At todays launch of Vol 3 of Mark Pennings Origins of Australian Football

04.01.2022 Spending the morning working on a vale display for one of our first two women Honorary Cricket Members.

Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, preparing to play at Lords as captain of the England womens cricket team. She has died, aged 77. pic.twitter.com/BOJiOzeTaG

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) January 18, 2017

03.01.2022 https://instagram.com/p/5ROmc5n-R4/