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<p><a href="http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2006/october/cricket.php">http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2006/october/cricket.php</a>:</p> | <p><a href="http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2006/october/cricket.php">http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2006/october/cricket.php</a>:</p> | ||
<p>Lester adds this: "Benjamin Franklin was sufficiently interested in the game [cricket] to bring back with him from England a copy of the laws of cricket, for it was this very copy which was presented to the Young America Club . . .on June 4, 1867." Lester, <u>A Century of Philadelphia Cricket</u> (U Penn, 1951), page 5. <b>Caveat:</b> we have not located a contemporary account of the Franklin story.</p> | <p>Lester adds this: "Benjamin Franklin was sufficiently interested in the game [cricket] to bring back with him from England a copy of the laws of cricket, for it was this very copy which was presented to the Young America Club . . .on June 4, 1867." Lester, <u>A Century of Philadelphia Cricket</u> (U Penn, 1951), page 5. <b>Caveat:</b> we have not located a contemporary account of the Franklin story.</p> | ||
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| Text | Several sources, including the Smithsonian, magazine, report that "The rules of the game on this side of the Atlantic were formalized in 1754, when Benjamin Franklin brought back from England a copy of the [ten year old - LMc] 1744 Laws, cricket's official rule book." Simon Worrall, "Cricket, Anyone?" Smithsonian Magazine, October 2006. The excerpt can be found in the seventh paragraph of the article [as accessed 10/19/2008] at: http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2006/october/cricket.php: Lester adds this: "Benjamin Franklin was sufficiently interested in the game [cricket] to bring back with him from England a copy of the laws of cricket, for it was this very copy which was presented to the Young America Club . . .on June 4, 1867." Lester, A Century of Philadelphia Cricket (U Penn, 1951), page 5. Caveat: we have not located a contemporary account of the Franklin story. |
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