Tasmanian cricketer Charlie Eady is best known for his colossal score of 566 for Break O'Day against Wellington in 1901-02, but his life extended far beyond that single performance.
Real Tennis in Hobart - the Pioneers, is a history of the introduction of real (or royal) tennis to Australia, beginning with the establishment by Samuel Smith Travers of the court on Davey St, Hobart in 1874 and his publication A Treatise on Tennis in 1875.