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|Year=1842 | |Year=1842 | ||
|Year Suffix=c | |Year Suffix=c | ||
|Year Number=7 | |||
|Headline=Cricket and Town Ball Recalled in Philadelphia PA | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Location=Philadelphia | |Location=Philadelphia | ||
|Game=Cricket | |Country= | ||
|Text=<p>"The first cricket I ever saw was on a field near Logan Station . . . about 1842. | |Coordinates= | ||
<p>John Lester, < | |State= | ||
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|Text=<p>"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.</p> | |||
<p>John Lester, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Century of Philadelphia Cricket</span> [UPenn Press, Philadelphia, 1951], page 9. Lester does not provide a source here, but his bibliography lists: Wister, William Rotch, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Some Reminiscences of Cricket I Philadelphia Before 1861</span> [Allen, Philadelphia, 1904].</p> | |||
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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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