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Brooklyn Daily Eagle Contrasts Base Ball and Cricket

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Newspaper Coverage
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: Brooklyn, NY, United States
Game Base Ball, Cricket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Text

"Base ball is the favorite game, as it is more simple in its rules, and a knowledge of them is easily acquired. Cricket is the most scientific of the two and requires more skill and judgment in the use of the bat, especially, than base."

 

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"Cricket and Base Ball," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 22, 1858. 

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Submitted by Facsimile contributed by Bill Ryczek, December 29, 2009.



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