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|Term=American Cricket
|Term=American Cricket
|Kind of Game=Baseball
|Game Family=Baseball
|Description=<p>A hybrid cricket-baseball game reportedly introduced in Chicago in 1870. The game is described as having cricket rules, except with no LBW rule, and with the addition of a third base, so that the bases form a triangle with sides of 28-yards. We have no other accounts of this game.</p>
|Description=A hybrid cricket-baseball game reportedly[4] introduced in Chicago in 1870. The game is described as having cricket rules, except with no LBW rule, and with the addition of a third base, so that the bases form a triangle with sides of 28-yards. We have no other accounts of this game.
|Sources=<p><span>Reportedly in the&nbsp;</span><em>Philadelphia</em><em>&nbsp;Mercury</em><span>.</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span>An account of the article&nbsp;</span><span>&nbsp;</span><span>appeared in the&nbsp;</span><em>Penny Illustrated Paper</em><span>&nbsp;(</span>London<span>), December 17, 1870 (page 370).</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span>Contributed by Tom Shieber, email of 2/25/2009.</span></p>
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Description A hybrid cricket-baseball game reportedly[4] introduced in Chicago in 1870. The game is described as having cricket rules, except with no LBW rule, and with the addition of a third base, so that the bases form a triangle with sides of 28-yards. We have no other accounts of this game.
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