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Marylanders Play "Great Cricket Match for a Good Sum"

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City/State/Country: Annapolis, MD, United States
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"We hear that there is to be a great cricket match for a good sum played on Saturday next, near Mr. Aaron Rawling's Spring, between eleven young men of this city [Annapolis] and the same number from Prince George's County [now a Washington suburban community]"

Bradford's Journal, August 1, 1754, as cited in Lester's A Century of Philadelphia Cricket (UPenn Press, Philadelphia, 1951), page 5.

This game was at/near Annapolis. See the Annapolis Maryland Gazette, July 25, Aug. 8, Nov. 14, 1754. [ba]

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