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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Headline=<u>Eagle</u> Contrasts Base Ball and Cricket
|Year=1858
|Year=1858
|Year Number=9
|Headline=<u>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</u> Contrasts Base Ball and Cricket
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>"Base ball is the favorite game, as it is more simple in its rules, and a knowledge of them is easily acquired. Cricket is the most scientific of the two and requires more skill and judgment in the use of the bat, especially, than base."</p>
|Tags=Newspaper Coverage,
<p>"Cricket and Base Ball," <u>Brooklyn</u><u>Eagle</u>, March 22, 1858. Facsimile contributed by Bill Ryczek, December 29, 2009.</p>
|Country=US
|State=NY
|City=Brooklyn
|Game=Base Ball, Cricket,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Text=<p>"Base ball is the favorite game, as it is more simple in its rules, and a knowledge of them is easily acquired. Cricket is the most scientific of the two and requires more skill and judgment in the use of the bat, especially, than base."</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p>"Cricket and Base Ball,"&nbsp;<span>Brooklyn Daily&nbsp;</span><span>Eagle</span>, March 22, 1858.&nbsp;</p>
|Submitted by=Facsimile contributed by Bill Ryczek, December 29, 2009.
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=9
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle Contrasts Base Ball and Cricket

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Newspaper Coverage
City/State/Country: Brooklyn, NY, US
Game Base Ball, Cricket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Text

"Base ball is the favorite game, as it is more simple in its rules, and a knowledge of them is easily acquired. Cricket is the most scientific of the two and requires more skill and judgment in the use of the bat, especially, than base."

 

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"Cricket and Base Ball," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 22, 1858. 

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Submitted by Facsimile contributed by Bill Ryczek, December 29, 2009.



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