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  • |Country=Australia |State=South Australia
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  • |Headline=Cricket Reaches Australia |Text=<p>"The first mention of cricket in Australia is in the <i>Sydney Gazette</i> of 8 January 1804. 'The late intense weather has
    595 bytes (96 words) - 17:35, 6 September 2012
  • |Headline=Base Ball Reported in Australia |Country=Australia
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  • |Headline=Australia&#39;s First Recorded Cricket Match Played ...i> [date not supplied] reported on a match between a military club and the Australia Cricket Club, comprising native-born members. They played at "the Racecour
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  • |Country=Australia |State=Western Australia
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  • |Country=Australia |State=Western Australia
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  • |Name=In Sydney in 1803 |Country=Australia
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  • |Country=Australia |State=South Australia
    727 bytes (104 words) - 18:56, 14 October 2015
  • |Country=Australia ...article mentions teams in Melbourne, Richmond and Victoria, and also clubs in Adelaide, Broken Hill, and Tasmania.</p>
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  • |Title=early word of the Australia trip extended to a world tour ...a scheme which for boldness and scope tops anything ever before attempted in the annals of sports. Instead of returning to America via California he ha
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  • |Country=Australia ...in a suburb, and usually hosted cricket or football games. Telopea Park is in the Barton suburb.</p>
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  • |Headline=Base Ball in Melbourne? |Location=Australia,
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  • |Name=In Adelaide in 1839 |Country=Australia
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  • |Country=Australia |State=Western Australia
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  • |Country=Australia |First in Location=New South Wales, Australia
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  • |Name=In Perth in 1835 |Country=Australia
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  • |Title=Athletic Sports in America, England, and Australia |Is in library=Yes
    292 bytes (49 words) - 18:46, 28 July 2019
  • |Name=In Carnarvon in 1857 |Country=Australia
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  • |Place Published=Kent Town, Australia |Is in library=Yes
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  • |Name=in Melbourne in 1867 |Country=Australia
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  • |Country=Australia |First in Location=St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia
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  • |Name=In Adelaide in 1846 |Country=Australia
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  • |Title=The Story of Cricket in Australia |Is in library=Yes
    259 bytes (36 words) - 18:42, 28 July 2019
  • |Country=Australia ...on=<p>The Darwin <em>Northern Standard</em>, Oct. 18, 1938: "Baseball. The first meeting of the proposed Northern Territory Baseball Association was held at
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  • |Name=in Broken Hill in April 1889 |Country=Australia
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  • |Name=Georgia Minstrels music troupe v St. Kilda Baseball Club in June 1879 |Country=Australia
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  • ...o men I’ve forgotten.” The chances are, however, that Spalding’s agent in Australia has made such preparations that the Hart combination’s trip will be given
    861 bytes (145 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
  • |Place Published=St. Peters, Australia |Is in library=Yes
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  • |Name=in Brookfield in 1892 |Country=Australia
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  • |Country=Australia ..., Jan. 2, 1914, the spectators had seen the game played only once or twice in the last 25 years. For more on this game, see Sullivan, <em>History of the
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  • |Country=Australia |Description=<p>"The first recorded baseball match, played at Sydney's Moore Park on July 9, 1878, was
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  • |Name=in Toowoomba in 1895 |Country=Australia
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  • |Country=Australia ...r in America as cricket is here, and as today will witness its first trial in the colonies it will no doubt prove attractive to lovers of out-door sports
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  • ...to touch a staff held by an umpire with his bat. The modern rule appeared in the 1744 rules.</p> ...lefield, Peter, <u>Cricket Laws and Terms</u> [Axiom Publishing, Kent Town Australia, 1990], page 22.</p>
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  • |Name=in Ballarat on 29 December 1888 |Country=Australia
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  • <p>Egan, Jack, <u>The Story of Cricket in Australia</u> (ABC Books, 1987), page 16</p>
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  • |Title=prospects for professionals in Australia ...our paper, that they are better off where they are. There is no money yet in playing the game here, and I would not advise any of them to come here on t
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  • |Tags=Ball in the Culture, Bans, |Location=Australia,
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  • ...s side, Launceston Cricket Club v Atkinson's Side, Launceston Cricket Club in January 1879 |Country=Australia
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  • |Location=Canada, Australia ...s, except for the case of a caught fly, which&nbsp;immediately retires the in team; runners are out if tagged, or plugged below the knee.</p>
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  • |Headline=Cricket a "Popular Recreation" in Sydney <p>Egan, Jack, <u>The Story of Cricket in Australia</u> (ABC Books, 1987), page 10. Egan does not give a reference for the pro
    519 bytes (78 words) - 17:36, 6 September 2012
  • ..."Originally bowling literally meant 'to bowl the ball along the ground' as in the style of lawn bowls. By 1750, however, a mixture of grubbers and fully ...er Scholefield, <u>Cricket Laws and Terms</u> [Axiom Publishing, Kent Town Australia], page 34.</p>
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  • |Country=Australia ...=<p>The St. Kilda Cricket Club has had the same grounds since its founding in 1855. The grounds are also known as Junction Oval.</p>
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  • |Country=Australia <p>The Carlton Gardens (in the Carlton neighborhood of Melbourne) exist today, and adjoin the Royal Ex
    509 bytes (71 words) - 19:02, 1 November 2021
  • ...imber, I was an expert at ball catching in rounders (cricket being unknown in Wales at the time), and when I left school, my name was the only one inscri ...ghes, born in 1829 in Wales, here recalls his time at a school in Holywell in the north of Wales.</p>
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  • ...n><span>It is possible that the exhibit would also be shown in&nbsp;</span>Australia<span>&nbsp;and at&nbsp;</span>Cooperstown<span>&nbsp;afterward.</span><span
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  • ...all Club, Collingwood members v Melbourne Base Ball Club, Richmond members in February 1857 |Country=Australia
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  • |Headline=A Wider Bat? Even in Cricket, There&#39;s Always a Joker ...er Scholefield, <u>Cricket Laws and Terms</u> [Axiom Publishing, Kent Town Australia, 1990], page 15.</p>
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  • |Name=In Hobart in 1832 |Country=Australia
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  • ...<span>Beth, a Yale-educated Cleveland Indians fan, has 20 years experience in curating social-history events at Australian and American museums.</span></
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  • |Name=In Brisbane in 1845 |Country=Australia
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  • |Name=In Launceston in 1833 |Country=Australia
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  • |Name=In Sydney in 1832 |Country=Australia
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  • |Name=In Melbourne in 1838 |Country=Australia
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  • |Name=In Hobart on 19 January 1835 |Country=Australia
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  • |Name=In Melbourne in 1849 |Country=Australia
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  • |Name=In Brisbane in 1848 |Country=Australia
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  • |Name=In Hobart on 30 October 1827 |Country=Australia
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  • ...in the 1600's; in fact, the "chain" became itself a word for this distance in 1661; email of 2/1/2008.]</p> ...lefield, Peter, <u>Cricket Laws and Terms</u> [Axiom Publishing, Kent Town Australia, 1990], page 16. <b>Note:</b> Scholefield does not provide a citation for t
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  • |Name=In Melbourne on 21 April 1841 |Country=Australia
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  • |Country=Australia ...article mentions teams in Melbourne, Richmond and Victoria, and also clubs in Adelaide, Broken Hill, and Tasmania.</p>
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  • ...er Scholefield, <u>Cricket Laws and Terms</u> [Axiom Publishers, Kent Town Australia, 1990], pages 14 and 9, respectively.</p> <p>In addition, Ford reports that "the size of the wicket was increased to 24 inc
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  • |Country=Australia ...d Paddock or Park before being temporarily reserved and renamed Yarra Park in 1867. (per Wikipedia)</p>
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  • ...mment on it, and the project in question was his proposed return home from Australia via the European continent and Great Britain.</p>
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  • |Location=France, Australia ...and with your feet together as if standing&nbsp;in attention, with the bat in front protecting it below the knees and surrounded by fielders/catchers sur
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  • |Location=Britain, India, Australia South Africa, New Zealand ...<sup class="reference"></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"></sup>In the South Asian region, gully cricket is very popular."<sup class="referenc
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  • ...layers no on the way to Australia to deprive them of the period of grace. In just to the absent players, and for the sake of consistency, the Australian
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  • ...innish games kuningaspallo, pitkapallo, and poltopallo, and was introduced in 1922. Some call it Finland&rsquo;s national game.</p> ...atter, a zigzag basepath of progressive length [about 65 feet from home to first, about 150 feet from third to home], optional running with fewer than two s
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  • |Country=Australia |First in Location=
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  • ...established there upon the same basis of public favor that it has enjoyed in this country for years past.</p> ...up a business there, as the result of my contemplated venture, that will, in the end, repay me.</p>
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  • |First Name=Jacob 'Jack' ...t appeared in Distant Replay! Washington's Jewish Sports Heroes, published in 2014 by the Washington State Jewish Historical Society.</p>
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  • ...als, and the Germantowns. They play on the Wanderers Athletic grounds. The first two are the best, and are playing for the "H. A. Pitt cup" championship.</p ..., Australia and Africa" (1913) writes of two baseball clubs playing a game in Johannesburg, composed of American miners from CA and CO. (p. 280)</p>
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  • |Name=in Wellington on 17 November 1888 ...n Wellington took place this afternoon, between the newly-established club in Wellington, and a team from the Hicks and Sawyer's Minstrel Troupe.&nbsp; T
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  • |Name=in Hobart on 22 September 1855 |Country=Australia
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  • ...o be paid to the party of the first part on the signing of the said Ward. In consideration of $1 received by me this day the above agreement shall hold ...The communication referred to will probably reach Sidney as soon, if not in advance, of the Australian party. The Sporting Life December 5, 1888</p>
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  • |Country=Australia ...dies,</span> is attributed to a Signor Voarino and was published in London in 1827.</p>
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  • ...family of closely related games, some more and some less developed. &nbsp;In the second, baseball is a single game defined by an official set of rules, ...albeit baseball a more developed form. &nbsp;You can find such statements in the 1850s, but by 1867 the more typical version was that baseball developed
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  • |Title=the Brotherhood's first reaction to the Brush plan; retrospective on the $2,000 limit ...ot going to sit idly by and allow the League to deal as unfairly by us and in as bad faith as has been the case. They broke faith with us last year when
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  • <p>The game is (arguably) recorded in 1300 in England, and for sure in 1598. See Altham, "A History of Cricket" p. 18-19, and Green, "A History of ...ates, led by Connecticut and Massachusetts.&nbsp; It seems to have crested in the post Civil War era, and town vs. town matches, some using teams of as m
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