Title: They Could Catch Pigeons
First published: 1996
Description: From The FOREWORD:-
by
Robert Gate,
Official Rugby League Historian.
"Ray Hewson is a braver man than I am. He must be - otherwise he would never have attempted to write a book like "They Could Catch Pigeons ". His self-imposed task of defining the fastest men to have played Rugby League could only be a journey through a sporting mine-field. Everywhere he trod was liable to blow up in his face. He was certainly never likely to please everyone and that is possibly why "They Could Catch Pigeons" is such a provocative and absorbing exercise........................"