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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1850
|Year Number=29
|Headline=US Has Twenty Cricket Clubs
|Headline=US Has Twenty Cricket Clubs
|Year=1850
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Game=Cricket
|Game=Cricket
|Text=<p>"Despite its shortcomings, cricket enjoyed significant popularity in the United States. By 1850, there were a half dozen clubs in New York and about twenty around the United States."</p>
|Text=<p>"Despite its shortcomings, cricket enjoyed significant popularity in the United States. By 1850, there were a half dozen clubs in New York and about twenty around the United States."</p>
<p>William Ryczek, <u>Baseball's First Inning</u> (McFarland, 2009), page 105. See George Kirsch, "American Cricket: Players and Clubs Before the Civil War," <u>Journal of Sport History</u>, Volume 11 (Spring 1984).</p>
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|Sources=<p>William Ryczek, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball's First Inning</span> (McFarland, 2009), page 105. He cites&nbsp;George Kirsch, "American Cricket: Players and Clubs Before the Civil War," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal of Sport History</span>, Volume 11 (Spring 1984).</p>
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|Year Number=29
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"Despite its shortcomings, cricket enjoyed significant popularity in the United States. By 1850, there were a half dozen clubs in New York and about twenty around the United States."

 

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William Ryczek, Baseball's First Inning (McFarland, 2009), page 105. He cites George Kirsch, "American Cricket: Players and Clubs Before the Civil War," Journal of Sport History, Volume 11 (Spring 1984).

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