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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;"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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;John Lester, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;A Century of Philadelphia Cricket&lt;/span&gt; [UPenn Press, Philadelphia, 1951], page 9. Lester does not provide a source here, but his bibliography lists: Wister, William Rotch, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Some Reminiscences of Cricket I Philadelphia Before 1861&lt;/span&gt; [Allen, Philadelphia, 1904].&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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    • 1842c.7  + (<p>"The first cricket I ever saw was … <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></br><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> of Cricket I Philadelphia Before 1861</span> [Allen, Philadelphia, 1904].</p>)
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