1838.10
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
 |
| Prominent Milestones |
| Misc BB Firsts |
| Add a Misc BB First |
| About the Chronology |
| Tom Altherr Dedication |
| Add a Chronology Entry |
| Open Queries |
| Open Numbers |
| Most Aged |
Brooklyn's First Cricket Match?
| Salience | Noteworthy |
|---|---|
| Tags | Pre-KnicksPre-Knicks |
| Location | |
| City/State/Country: | [[{{{Country}}}]] |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | CricketCricket |
| Immediacy of Report | |
| Age of Players | |
| Holiday | |
| Notables | |
| Text | "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. "Sporting Reminiscences," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 16, 1873. Contributed by Gregory Christiano, December 8, 2009. Citing material in the Chadwick scrapbooks, Ryczek's Baseball-s First Inning (page 101) calls this contest the "first widely-reported 'modern' cricket match." |
| Sources | |
| Warning | |
| Comment | Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Edit with form to add a query |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
| External Number | |
| Submitted by | |
| Submission Note | |
| Has Supplemental Text |
1838.10 Brooklyn's First Cricket Match?"
Comments
<comments voting="Plus" />