Cook remains Brighton's all-time top scorer, with 123 goals from 209 games played.
[2] Primarily a right-handed batsman and also an occasional right-arm medium pace bowler he was recruited to Sussex County Cricket Club after being spotted playing for Cuckfield's second X1.
In World War I he enlisted into the Royal Navy when only 16 years old and while serving in Russia he won a medal after diving into the freezing sea to save a shipmate's life.
[2] He died by taking his own life in 1950, overdosing on sleeping pills, ten days after his 49th birthday.
[1] In 2021 a book of his life and his highly successful careers with Brighton & Hove Albion and Sussex County Cricket Club entitled Tommy Cook, The Double Life of a Superstar Sportsman was published[4]