Trivia

Regarded by most analysts and observers to be the greatest English pace bowler ever and one of the greatest bowlers of all-time.

Former cricket player who has played for Yorkshire, Derbyshire & England.

His daughter, Rebecca, married Damon Welch, son of Raquel Welch. It was a brief marriage - Fred later commented that his bowling run-up was longer!!.

In 1989 awarded the OBE for his charity work.

Former father-in-law of Damon Welch.

Three children: Rebecca, Rodney and Karen Trueman.

He was a brilliant and very funny after dinner guest speaker. Producer David Wilkinson heard him one evening and working with Fred, produced a stand up comedy video last almost two hours on non-stop material which was recorded at the Leeds City Varieties in 1994. It became a best seller that year.

The first cricketer to scale the historic landmark of 300 test wickets.

Amongst his contemporaries, he quoted West Indian Wes Hall could deliver inswingers as well as outswingers better than most while Australian Ray Lindwall was the most accurate.

On his test debut against India in 1952, he reduced the opposition batting line-up to 4 wickets without a single run on the board.

His favorite batsman was West Indies legend Sir Garfield Sobers.

His bowling average of 21.57 is amongst the best for all bowlers with 300 wickets or more in test cricket.