摘要：Alf was born in the Melbourne suburb of Preston in 1922, the only son of his namesake, a proprietor of a cardboard-box factory. While the home of the family of four was in Preston, the Haggers had strong links to the inner-city suburb of Fitzroy and even stronger links to the sporting clubs that bore that name, the Fitzroy Cricket and Football Clubs. Alf worked his way up through church cricket to play for Fitzroy; later, he loyally stuck with the Lions football team when they merged with the Brisbane Bears
