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|Year=1818 | |Year=1818 | ||
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|Location=South | |Headline=Cricket Reported in Louisville KY? | ||
|Salience=2 | |||
|Location=US South | |||
|Game=Cricket | |Game=Cricket | ||
|Text=<p>"It is not unreasonable to speculate that as the immigrants came down the Ohio River . . . they brought with them the leisure activities hat had already developed in the cities along the Atlantic coast. There are reports of a form of cricket being played in the city as early at 1818."</p> | |Text=<p>"It is not unreasonable to speculate that as the immigrants came down the Ohio River . . . they brought with them the leisure activities hat had already developed in the cities along the Atlantic coast. There are reports of a form of cricket being played in the city as early at 1818."</p> | ||
<p>Bailey, Bob, "< | <p> </p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Bailey, Bob, "<em>Beginnings; From Amateur Teams to Disgrace in the National League,"</em> [1999], page 1. Bob (email, 1/27/2013), further quotes Dean Sullivan's master's thesis, <em>Ball-oriented Sport in a Southern City: A Study of the Organizational Evolution of Baseball in Louisville</em> (George Mason University): "Ball-oriented sports had been reported in Kentucky as early as 1818, when travelers stumbled upon a primitive game of cricket."</p> | |||
|Comment=<p><strong>Note:</strong> The original source of the 1818 reference may have been lost. Bob reports that Dean Sullivan thesis cited Harold Peterson's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Man Who Invented Baseball</span> (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973), page 24. However, Peterson gives no source. A dead end?</p> | |||
|Query=<p>Are there other sightings of this 1818 cricket account?</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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| Text | "It is not unreasonable to speculate that as the immigrants came down the Ohio River . . . they brought with them the leisure activities hat had already developed in the cities along the Atlantic coast. There are reports of a form of cricket being played in the city as early at 1818."
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| Sources | Bailey, Bob, "Beginnings; From Amateur Teams to Disgrace in the National League," [1999], page 1. Bob (email, 1/27/2013), further quotes Dean Sullivan's master's thesis, Ball-oriented Sport in a Southern City: A Study of the Organizational Evolution of Baseball in Louisville (George Mason University): "Ball-oriented sports had been reported in Kentucky as early as 1818, when travelers stumbled upon a primitive game of cricket." |
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| Comment | Note: The original source of the 1818 reference may have been lost. Bob reports that Dean Sullivan thesis cited Harold Peterson's The Man Who Invented Baseball (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973), page 24. However, Peterson gives no source. A dead end? Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Are there other sightings of this 1818 cricket account? Edit with form to add a query |
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