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D.O.B
Don was born at a nursing home at 89 Adams Street, Cootamundra, 320km south-west of Sydney. -
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Donald Bradman
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Kindergarten
He started kindergarten -
Measles
He caught the measles. -
Kangaloon concert
He sang at the Kangaloon concert on August 24, 1920, three days before his eighth birthday. -
His second game
At the age of 12, Bradman played for the Bowral High School senior XI. In his second game, he scored his first century (115 of the team total of 156) on the oval that now bears his name. He also took eight wickets. -
Hitting a goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a teenager he honed his reflexes and developed eye movement and co-ordination by hitting a golf ball with a stump into the brick base of the family water tank. -
Lets leave school (Yay!)
Bradman left school in 1922 at the age of 14. He began work for Percy Westbrook as a clerk in a Bowral real estate agency. -
An Invitation 4 years after school (hmmmm)
On October 5, 1926, at the age of 18, Bradman was invited to attend NSW state training. He also agreed to play Sydney grade cricket for St. George. -
Selection to play sheffield sheild cricket
In 1927, Bradman was selected to play Sheffield Shield for NSW. In his first game of first class cricket on December 16, 1927, he scored 118 against South Australia on the Adelaide Oval. -
Announcement
Bradman first heard his name announced in the Australian Test team on radio station 2FC. -
Playing cricket at Blackheath
In December 1931 Bradman scored 100 runs in 3 overs at Blackheath in the Blue Mountains.
Bradman made 256 comprising 14 sixes and 29 fours. -
Bradman and his children
In 1936, their first child, a son, lived only a day. Three years later, they had another son, John,
while daughter Shirley was born in 1941.