Garfield Sobers, a Hero of Cricket’s Golden Age

C. L. R. James wrote that, in the West Indies, test cricket players were “not a personage remote, to be read about in papers and worshiped from afar. They were all over the place, ready to play in any match, ready to talk.” This was true of even the best cricket player to ever live, Sir Garfield Sobers. In one of my earliest, foggy childhood memories, I was with my father in Bridgetown, Barbados. He took me to meet the great “Sir Gary” outside a horse racing pool, the site of one of Sobers’s…