He wasn't folksy like Babe Ruth or quotable like Ali or a knockabout bloke like Teddy Whitten. Australians aren't much like Bradman. He was famous for not seeking fame and in a way became a victim of it. For more than 70 years, he was public property. Sensible'' people received about one million replies.
Outsiders tell it differently.
About a decade back, Kevin Boyle, an Adelaide journalist and former editor of The Weekly Times, took his son Greg, then 13, to Bradman's home in Adelaide's Kensington Park. Greg had written to Bradman saying he was doing a school project on him. Bradman phoned and invited him around. He was really generous. When, in 1995, Roland Perry was writing The Don, he obtained a series of interviews with Bradman.