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- Ian John Heads OAM (born 15 February 1943) is an Australian historian, journalist, commentator and author. He is described as "Australia's foremost rugby league historian" by the National Museum of Australia. In the reconstruction period following World War II sport was exceptionally prominent in Australian society. Like many of his contemporaries, Heads was a sports-mad preteen and teenager. After completing high school he began work as a copy boy in the early 1960s for the Sydney Daily Telegraph, but soon rose through the ranks to become the main journalist covering rugby league for most of his long career. He also spent some years as editor of the magazine Rugby League Week. He has written more than 50 books, mostly on rugby league personalities, but also significant books on other sports, and some books of general interest. He has also written a comprehensive history of Australian sport since 1788, histories of rugby league in general, and chronicles of several sporting clubs. Most of his sport articles and reports on events such as the Olympic Games, Kangaroo and Rugby League World Cup, national and international swimming, Davis Cup and international tennis have been in newspapers and magazines. He has also contributed to other works in collaboration with David Middleton, Gary Lester, Norman Tasker and Geoff Armstrong. (en)
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- Rose Bay, Sydney, Australia (en)
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- historian, journalist, author, sportswriter (en)
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- Ian John Heads OAM (born 15 February 1943) is an Australian historian, journalist, commentator and author. He is described as "Australia's foremost rugby league historian" by the National Museum of Australia. He has written more than 50 books, mostly on rugby league personalities, but also significant books on other sports, and some books of general interest. He has also written a comprehensive history of Australian sport since 1788, histories of rugby league in general, and chronicles of several sporting clubs. (en)
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