I assume OP is from the commonwealth. Don Bradman is a household name here

And I ask you is he any good?

With an average of almost 100, he was the very best and will be the benchmark that all future greats will be compared to.

'Tis a line from the chorus of a famous (?) song about him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spDWaeBE2AY

  Our Don Bradman - And I ask you is he any good?
  Our Don Bradman - As a bastman he can sure lay on the wood.
  For when he goes in to bat
  He knocks ev'ry record flat,
  For there isn't any thing he cannot do,
  Our Don Bradman - Ev'ry Aussie "dips his lid" to you.

Oh woosh! :)

The amazing ending to the story is that in his last innings, "The Don" required 4 runs to reach an average of 100, but got out for a duck (zero) on the second ball. Apparently the ovation he got on entering the ground rattled him. The article below gives a description and makes the case that it was a fitting ending for a great, more memorable than if he had got the runs.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/bradmans-last-innings...

That graph is something else. Interestingly if you saw that for an athlete today, how many people wouldn't automatically assume drug use?

Bradman could presumably have used drugs. But then so could others.

A quick search revealed this http://sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.timeline.php?timelineI... review of the use of performance enhancing drugs (from the original Greek Olympics on to modern times) which I found diverting.

That is really interesting - particularly some of the things they thought would be enhancing performance.

I want to see a version of the Olymipcs where all the contestants are off their faces on opium.