 There is a popular myth that this "honour" has a "hex" or "curse" associated with it, as the player featured then invariably has a poor season.The original publisher was Playfair Books Ltd of London, which had its office at Curzon Street when the first edition was published in April 1948; the company relocated soon afterwards to Haymarket.The name Playfair was chosen because it reads as "play fair", as confirmed by C B Fry who began his foreword to the first edition in 1948