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|Year=1838 | |||
|Year Number=10 | |||
|Headline=Brooklyn's First Cricket Match? | |Headline=Brooklyn's First Cricket Match? | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, | |||
|Game=Cricket | |Game=Cricket | ||
|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. | <p> [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," < | |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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Text | [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." |
Sources | "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 |
Submission Note | Email, December 8, 2009 |
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