How Long to Read Pitch Battles

How Long Does it Take to Read Pitch Battles?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 32 minutes to read Pitch Battles by Peter Hain

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

“There will be a black Springbok over my dead body.” — Dr Danie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, 1969 Just a year after the controversial D’Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign brought about the cancellation of both tours, presaging white South Africa’s expulsion from the Olympics and the end of apartheid sport altogether. With his brand of attention-grabbing, direct action sports protest, the 19-year-old Hain emerged as a hero to some and enemy to others. Now, reflecting on these experiences with fifty years of hindsight, Lord Hain, together with South Africa’s foremost sports historian and fellow anti-apartheid activist André Odendaal, shows how decades of relentless international and domestic campaigning for equality led to a Springbok team captained by black athlete Siya Kolisi winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Interspersing a wide range of examples with personal testimony, Pitch Battles explores the themes of sport, globalisation and resistance from the deep past to the present day. Published in the same year as the Stop The Tour documentary from acclaimed director Louis Myles, this compelling story of sacrifice, struggle and triumph reveals how sport should never be divorced from politics or society’s values.

How long is Pitch Battles?

Pitch Battles by Peter Hain is 504 pages long, and a total of 128,016 words.

This makes it 170% the length of the average book. It also has 156% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Pitch Battles Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 39 minutes to read Pitch Battles aloud.

What Reading Level is Pitch Battles?

Pitch Battles is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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