The Legend from Bruce Rock

<p>Administrators and broadcasters come and go but there was something different about Wally Foreman.</p><p>More than 3000 people filled a stadium in November 2006 to farewell him after his passing from a heart attack while his memorial service was broadcast on state-wide radio. It was the largest service of its kind in WA.</p><p>Wally Foreman grew up in a small country town named Bruce Rock – a place he made famous through regaling the tales from The Rock. He was a career journalist and broadcaster recognised by name image and voice and he fundamentally changed the Australian sporting landscape as the inaugural director of the WA Institute of Sport.</p><p>Yet he was far more than all of that.</p><p>Written by his son to Charlotte the grandaughter he never met The Legend from Bruce Rock: The Wally Foreman Story details the remarkable emotional and humorous life of a man who loved and impacted his home state while always holding his home town in his heart.</p>