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|Year=1851
|Year Number=1
|Headline=Sport of Cricket Gets its First Comprehensive History Book
|Headline=Sport of Cricket Gets its First Comprehensive History Book
|Year=1851
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>Pycroft, James, <u>The Cricket Field; or, The History and Science of Cricket</u> [London? Pub'r?], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 220. This book's first chapter, "The Origins of the Game of Cricket," is seen by Block as "if not the earliest, one of the finest early studies of cricket history. The author exhumes a great number of references to cricket and its antecedents dating back to the year 1300." A Boston edition appeared in 1859 [Mayhew and Baker, publisher].</p>
|Country=England
|Game=Cricket
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Sources=<p>Pycroft, James, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Cricket Field; or, The History and Science of Cricket</span> [London? Pub'r?], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 220.</p>
<p>A Boston edition appeared in 1859 [Mayhew and Baker, publisher].</p>
|Comment=<p>This book's first chapter, "The Origins of the Game of Cricket," is seen by Block as "if not the earliest, one of the finest early studies of cricket history. The author exhumes a great number of references to cricket and its antecedents dating back to the year 1300."&nbsp;</p>
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Sport of Cricket Gets its First Comprehensive History Book

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Age of Players Adult
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Pycroft, James, The Cricket Field; or, The History and Science of Cricket [London? Pub'r?], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 220.

A Boston edition appeared in 1859 [Mayhew and Baker, publisher].

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This book's first chapter, "The Origins of the Game of Cricket," is seen by Block as "if not the earliest, one of the finest early studies of cricket history. The author exhumes a great number of references to cricket and its antecedents dating back to the year 1300." 

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