ABSTRACT
Early Life Learie Nicholas Constantine was born on September 21, 1901, at Petit Valley, Diego Martinez, Trinidad. When he was three his family moved to Maraval, near Port of Spain, and then in 1908 to the nearby village of St. Ann's. His father, Lebrun Constantine, overseer of a cocoa estate, was a fine cricketer who toured England with West Indies teams in 1900 and 1906, and his mother, nee Anna Pascall, also took a keen interest in the game. Cricket was the family's passion, and Constantine learned the game from his father, who always insisted on high standards of play. Repeated parental urgings to concentrate, to "pay attention," were taken to heart: It was unflagging concentration that was to make Constantine one of the most brilliant fielders the sport of cricket has ever known.
