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Cricket and Town Ball Recalled in Philadelphia PA

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Text	"The first cricket I ever saw was on a field near Logan Station . . . about 1842. The hosiery weavers at Wakefield Mills [cf #1841.8 above] near by had formed a club under the leadership of Lindley Fisher, a Haverford cricketer. . . . [My brother and I] had played Town Ball, the forerunner of baseball today, at Germantown Academy, and our handling of the ball was appreciated by the Englishmen. John Lester, A Century of Philadelphia Cricket [UPenn Press, Philadelphia, 1951], page 9. Lester does not provide a source here, but his bibliography lists: Wister, William Rotch, Some Reminiscences of Cricket I Philadelphia Before 1861 [Allen, Philadelphia, 1904].
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 <p>John Lester, <u>A Century of Philadelphia Cricket</u> [UPenn Press, Philadelphia, 1951], page 9.  Lester does not provide a source here, but his bibliography lists: Wister, William Rotch, <u>Some Reminiscences of Cricket I Philadelphia Before 1861</u> [Allen, Philadelphia, 1904].</p>
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