1850c.44
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Twenty or So Cricket Clubs Dot the US
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | US, New York CityUS, New York City |
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| Game | American CricketAmerican Cricket |
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| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | "During the late 1840s there was an increase in the number of cricket clubs in New York and nationally. At least six clubs were formed in the metropolitgan area, [but most] survived for only a few years. . . . George Kirsch maintains that by 1850 at least twenty cricket clubs, enrolling perhaps 500 active payers, existed in more than a dozen American communities."
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| Sources | Melvin Adelson, A Sporting Time (U. of Illinois Press, 1886), page 104. Adelson cites Kirsch, "American Cricket," in Journal of Sport Hstory, volume 11 (Spring 1984), page 28. |
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| Submitted by | Bill Ryczek, Baseball's First Inning (2009), page 103. |
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1850c.44 Twenty or So Cricket Clubs Dot the US"
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