Jack Dyer called Jack Broadstock the most talented footballer he had seen. Others called him variously a genius, criminal, poet and confidence man.
 
He played football like no one else of his time and helped Richmond to the 1943 premiership. Opponents found him impossible to contain with his size, pace and finely wrought skills. 
 
Yet his career was shrouded in mystery and misadventure. Where he went trouble and controversy followed. He drifted from West Adelaide to Richmond to Whyalla, Kalgoorlie, Stansbury and back. It wasn't until after he finished playing that he was finally contained by a finely calibrated police sting.
 
This book traces the life and times of an Australian sporting enigma. A product of depression and war years who played sport in a joyous form that was never forgotten by those who saw it and whose proud boast was that he never worked a day in his life.
 
'[Some footballers] deserve poets to write their stories. Jack Broadstock is lucky. He found one. The Trials of Jack Broadstock is a fitting memorial - a masterpiece.'
Bernard Whimpress, Journal of Aust Society for Sports History
 
paperback. 214 pages illustrated.