Jim Ware (hurler)

Jim Ware, who lived from 23 February 1908 to 18 July 1983, was an Irish hurler who played for Erin's Own, captaining the club on a number of occasions, and captained the Waterford senior hurling team that won the 1948 All-Ireland Championship. Widely regarded as one of the club's all-time greats, his career lasted over twenty years, during which he won 12 Waterford Senior Championship medals, including a record nine in a row between 1927 and 1935. He made his first appearance for Waterford in the 1927 Munster Championship and enjoyed his greatest successes as a goalkeeper over the following two decades. In 1948, at forty, he became the oldest player to lift the Liam MacCarthy Cup when Waterford won their first All-Ireland Championship, having earlier captained the team to the Munster Championship title, and in 1984 he was selected as goalkeeper on the Waterford Hurling Team of the Century. His brother Charlie played on the first Waterford team to reach an All-Ireland final in 1938.