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Cricket Played in Georgia Town Square
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| Location | SouthSouth |
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| Text | Georgia planter William Stephens: "Many of our Townsmen, Freeholders, Inmates, and Servants were assembled in the principal Square, at Cricket and divers other athletick Sports." A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, II, page 217, as cited in Lester, ed., A Century of Philadelphia Cricket [U Penn, 1951], page 4. Lester cites this account as the first mention of American cricket. |
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1737. Cricket Played in Georgia Town Square"
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