Editing Rod Laver (section)

==Early life==
Rodney George Laver was born in [[Rockhampton]], Australia, on 9 August 1938.<ref name="Fein2002">{{cite book |author=Fein, Paul |title=Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4x3fQ920EUMC&pg=PA49 |date=2002 |publisher=Potomac Books, Inc. |isbn=978-1-57488-526-2 |pages=49 |access-date=25 September 2016 |archive-date=30 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030225841/https://books.google.com/books?id=4x3fQ920EUMC&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="DeboltBaugess2011">{{cite book |author1=Debolt, Abbe A. |author2=Baugess, James S. |title=Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r4WFjKG6vmUC&pg=PA362 |date=31 December 2011 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-0102-0 |pages=362– |access-date=25 September 2016 |archive-date=30 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030225842/https://books.google.com/books?id=r4WFjKG6vmUC&pg=PA362 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was the third of four children of Roy Laver, a cattleman and butcher, and his wife Melba Roffey.{{sfnp|Laver|Writer|2014|p=2|ps=}}

Amongst his relatives were the cricketers [[Frank Laver]] and [[Jack Laver]].<ref name="make100">{{cite web|last1=Coverdale|first1=Brydon|title=It takes a rare cricketer to reach a century, not just make one|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/1086314.html|website=Cricinfo|date=10 March 2017|access-date=18 November 2022|archive-date=27 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827032937/http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/1086314.html|url-status=live}}</ref>