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Brooklyn's First Cricket Match?
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| Tags | Pre-Knicks NYCPre-Knicks NYC |
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| Text | [A] "It was in the fall of 1838 that we remember the first cricket match played in Brooklyn. The game of course, was a great novelty to the Brooklyn people of the time, except to such portion of them as wren of English birth. . . . The contestants were Nottingham men and Sheffielders." Sheffield won, 167 to 44. [B] Ryczek's Baseball-s First Inning (page 101) calls this contest the "first widely-reported 'modern' cricket match." |
| Sources | "Sporting Reminiscences," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 16, 1873. William Ryczek, Baseball's First Inning (McFarland, 2009), page 101. |
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| Submitted by | Gregory Christiano |
| Submission Note | Email, December 8, 2009 |
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1838.10 Brooklyn's First Cricket Match?"
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