Book Launch “Cricket’s Lost Prodigy”

You are welcome to attend the Book Launch of “Cricket’s Lost Prodigy - The Karl Schneider Story”, with author Michael Lefebvre (OX 1972).

Join us at Xavier College (Dalton Room) on Monday February 24th at 5pm.

Please register your attendance here by February 21st.

Refreshments will be provided. You will be able to purchase a magnificent signed limited edition of the book on the night. It is $60.00

Full information and details below:

Karl Schneider was the pride of Xavier College, a teenage prodigy whose cricket and football prowess forged an elite status among Melbourne schoolboys 100 years ago.

Despite his diminutive statue – he was just 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) – young Karl was being groomed to succeed the legendary Warren Bardsley as Australia's opening batsman when selected ahead of a young Don Bradman for Australia's 1928 tour of New Zealand.

Tragically, he never was to achieve his dream of wearing a Baggy Green Cap.

Having accessed original letters, diaries and Schneider family memorabilia via school archives, Xavier old boy, lawyer and cricket buff MICHAEL LEFÈBVRE tells a poignant, heartbreaking story brilliantly.