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US Editor Promotes Cricket as the "National Game"

Salience	Noteworthy
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Location	Greater New York CityGreater New York City
City/State/Country:	NYC, NY, US
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Game	American CricketAmerican Cricket
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
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Text	"Hitherto, one great obstacle to the progress of the game [cricket] in this country has been the assertion made by certain ignorant and prejudiced parties, the Cricket is only played by Englishmen. . . . But it is not so.
Sources	"Cricket," New York Clipper, May 16, 1857. Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], page 25.
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