Underdogs
**Shortlisted for the 2018 General Outstanding Sports Book of the Year**
One of the founder members in 1895 of what became the Rugby League, Batley was once a thriving centre of commerce, one of the bustling mill towns in the Heavy Woollen District of West Yorkshire. More than 120 years on, times have changed, even if the town''s Victorian buildings remain, but one constant is the importance of the...
**Shortlisted for the 2018 General Outstanding Sports Book of the Year**
One of the founder members in 1895 of what became the Rugby League, Batley was once a thriving centre of commerce, one of the bustling mill towns in the Heavy Woollen District of West Yorkshire. More than 120 years on, times have changed, even if the town''s Victorian buildings remain, but one constant is the importance of the...
