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Stoolball - Frying Pans at Lord's: The Bizarre 20th Century Comeback Nobody Expected

Stoolball - Frying Pans at Lord's: The Bizarre 20th Century Comeback Nobody Expected

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Host Oly Bennet explores stoolball's 1920s comeback when Major William Wilson Grantham transformed a 500-year-old village game into a sporting phenomenon. From Lord's Cricket Ground to Buckingham Palace, he established over 1,000 clubs in four years, launching the world's oldest surviving bat-and-ball game into global prominence.

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