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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1838
|Year Number=10
|Headline=Brooklyn's First Cricket Match?
|Headline=Brooklyn's First Cricket Match?
|Year=1838
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC,
|Game=Cricket
|Game=Cricket
|Tags=Pre-Knicks
|Text=<p>[A] "It was in the fall of 1838 that we remember the first cricket match played in Brooklyn. The game of course, was a great novelty to the Brooklyn people of the time, except to such portion of them as wren of English birth. . . . The contestants were Nottingham men and Sheffielders." Sheffield won, 167 to 44.</p>
|Text=<p>"It was in the fall of 1838 that we remember the first cricket match played in Brooklyn. The game of course, was a great novelty to the Brooklyn people of the time, except to such portion of them as wren of English birth. . . . The contestants were Nottingham men and Sheffielders." Sheffield won, 167 to 44.</p>
<p>&nbsp;[B] Ryczek's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball-s First Inning</span> (page 101) calls this contest the "first widely-reported 'modern' cricket match."</p>
<p>"Sporting Reminiscences," <u>Brooklyn</u> <u>Daily Eagle</u>, July 16, 1873. Contributed by Gregory Christiano, December 8, 2009.  Citing material in the Chadwick scrapbooks, Ryczek's <u>Baseball-s First Inning</u> (page 101) calls this contest the "first widely-reported 'modern' cricket match."</p>
|Sources=<p>"Sporting Reminiscences," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Brooklyn</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Daily Eagle</span>, July 16, 1873.</p>
<p>William Ryczek, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball's First Inning</span> (McFarland, 2009), page 101.</p>
|Submitted by=Gregory Christiano
|Submission Note=Email, December 8, 2009
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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[A] "It was in the fall of 1838 that we remember the first cricket match played in Brooklyn. The game of course, was a great novelty to the Brooklyn people of the time, except to such portion of them as wren of English birth. . . . The contestants were Nottingham men and Sheffielders." Sheffield won, 167 to 44.

 [B] Ryczek's Baseball-s First Inning (page 101) calls this contest the "first widely-reported 'modern' cricket match."

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"Sporting Reminiscences," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 16, 1873.

William Ryczek, Baseball's First Inning (McFarland, 2009), page 101.

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Submitted by Gregory Christiano
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