1550c.1

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No English Reference Claimed for the Word "Cricket" Found Before 1550

Salience Noteworthy
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
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"The medieval origin of the national game of the English is beyond doubt, but not so its Island roots. There would have been ample opportunity for it to figure on the lists of banned games set out by their kings, but there is no written mention of it before 1550. It is, of course, not impossible that its forerunner was one of the many ball games played with unidentifiable rules, as for instance club ball."

 

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From an unidentified photocopy in the "Origins of Baseball" file at the Giamatti Center at Cooperstown.  (Found c. 2006)

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Note: the inconsistencies among the preceding cricket entries in Protoball (see 1478.1) need to be resolved . . . . or at least addressed

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