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Alabamans Choose Cricket

Salience Noteworthy
Location Alabama
City/State/Country: Mobile, AL, United States
Game Cricket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"Cricket in Alabama. - The lovers of this active and healthful game will be gratified to learn that a cricket club has been organized in Mobile [AL], under favorable auspices, and has already upon its roll a list of forty seven prominent and respectable merchants."

 

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New York Clipper, March 17, 1860. 

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Mobile is on the Gulf Coast about 30 miles E of the Mississippi border. 

Bad timing, eh?

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Submitted by Bill Ryczek
Submission Note 12/29/2009



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