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|Headline=Philadelphia Cricket Club Issues Challenge for Matches at $50 to $100 |Game=Cricket

|Headline=Cricket Played at Southern Outings |Game=Cricket

|Headline=New York Cricket Club Meets "Regularly" |Game=Cricket

|Title=Single Wicket Cricket Diagram |Description=Single-wicket cricket diagram. From Donald Walker, 1837, Games and Sports, London, Pub. Thomas Hurst p. 218

|Headline=Cricket Match in Hawaii |Tags=US cricket clubs,

|Headline="Base" and Cricket Listed in Book of US Pastimes |Game=Cricket

|Title=the ill effects of cricket hitting ...e who notice their batting will see how apt the strikers are to indulge in cricket hits, which are very unsafe in base ball.</p>

...s&nbsp;contributed a paper on the English response to exhibition base ball games in England in the early 1900s.</p>

..., Bandy-Wicket is Cricket played with a bandy (a curved club) instead of a cricket bat. This name was evidently once used in Norfolk and Suffolk.</p> ...a Gomme,&nbsp;</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland</span><em>, </em>Volume 1&

.... . " "We may summarize: The game and name of cricket stem back to ancient games played with a curved stick and ball, starting with <i>la soule</i>, and evo ...r observers agree with Henderson on whether and how stoolball evolved into cricket?</p>

|Title=cricket matches planned for the baseball tour ...land professional eleven. These games will be played at Lord’s celebrated cricket ground, England, the charge for admission to which is an English shilling,

|Headline=Cricket Outshines Base Ball in Press Coverage |Game=Cricket

|Game=Cricket |Sources=See Glossary of Games, Cricket.

|Headline=Portsmouth NH Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games |Tags=Bans, US cricket clubs,

|Headline=Early Use of "Cricket" Seen in Rabelais Translation ...s, published in London in 1653, where it is found enumerated as one of the games of the Gargantua."</p>

|Term=American Cricket ...oduced in Chicago in 1870. The game is described as generally &nbsp;having cricket rules, except with no LBW rule, and with the addition of a third base, so t

|Headline=Robert E. Lee Promotes Cricket at West Point? |Game=Cricket

...n stocking and brown undressed leather cricket shoes, with double breasted cricket flannel jackets.</p>

|Headline=Games Recalled at Phillips Exeter Academy |Game=Cricket

|Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls |Game=Cricket

|Headline=Wicket, as Well as Cricket and Base Ball, Reported in Baltimore MD |Game=Cricket, Wicket, Base Ball,

|Headline=Scholar Deems 1855 the Peak of Cricket-playing in America |Game=American Cricket,

|Headline=24,000 Attend US-England All-Star Cricket Match at Elysian Fields |Game=Cricket

|Name=Club of Detroit v Detroit Cricket Club on 21 June 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Term=Cricket -- US |Description=<p>Cricket remained the game of choice for some Americans, particularly in the Philade

...the company dispersed to the athletic games and sports, which consisted of cricket, quoits, trap, and base-ball, kiss-in-the-ring, &c.”</p>

|Name=Irving v Picked Players from the Queens County Cricket Club in New York on 28 November 1861 |Away Team=Picked Players from the Queens County Cricket Club

|Headline=Philadelphia Book: "Bat and Ball is an Inferior Kind of Cricket" |Game=Cricket, Bat and Ball

|Headline=U. of Michigan Alum Recalls Baseball, Wicket, Old-Cat Games |Game=Wicket, Base Ball, American Cricket, Old-Cat Games

|Headline=In Georgia, "Baseball and Cricket Had Not Evolved" |Tags=College, US cricket clubs,

|Headline=Cricket [or Maybe Wicket?] Played by Harvard Class of 1841 |Game=Cricket

|Headline="Grand Match of Cricket" Planned in NYC |Game=Cricket

|Headline=At Harvard, Most Students Played Baseball and Football, Some Cricket or Four-Old-Cat |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Old-Cat Games

...nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span>Part of the exhibition will focus on bat and balls games prior to 1840, and Beth is looking into stoolball history and the 1755 Will

|Name=Poughkeepsie Cricket Club v Eastman Commercial College on 27 November 1861 |Home Team=Poughkeepsie Cricket Club

|Headline=NY game, Mass game, Cricket co-exist |Game=Cricket, Base Ball,

|Name=Syracuse Base Ball Club v Syracuse Cricket Club on 1 August 1859 |Away Team=Syracuse Cricket Club

|Headline=<u>Book of Games</u> Covers Cricket, Trap-Ball |Text=<p>Among the games described in this book are cricket and trap-ball, which has this concise account, in the form of a dialog: "yo

|Title=the Knickerbockers to play match games ...ith the St. George and Manhattan Cricket clubs alternately at baseball and cricket.</p>

|Name=Olympic Club of Philadelphia v St. George’s Cricket Club of Philadelphia on 24 July 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Headline=Author Recalls Cricket and Base |Game=Cricket,Base

|Term=French Cricket ...the hitter&nbsp;-&nbsp;never read about that in Cricket except for 'French Cricket' (a picnic game played by kids in France &amp; I played it too) where you s

|Game=Single-Wicket Cricket, |Text=<p><span>"CRICKET. A match of single wicket was yesterday played at the Red House, Harlem,</s

|Headline=Bass-ball "Quite Too Complicated" for Children's Book on Games |Game=Cricket, Base Ball, Bat-Ball,

|Title=benefits of mixing baseball and cricket ...e together in just the friendly and enjoyable manner in which the New York Cricket Club and the Atlantic Base-Ball Club did on Monday last, in the game that w

|Headline=Harvard Man Recalls Cricket, "Various Games of Bat and Ball" on Campus |Game=Cricket

...base ball—the first of English origin; the other an American invention. Cricket is said to have been played as early as the sixteenth century, while base b

|Headline=Poet: "Hail Cricket! Glorious Manly, British Game! ...poet and actor James Dance [1722-1774] penned a 316-line verse that extols cricket. The poem, it may surprise you to learn, turns on the muffed catch by an A

...a newspaper reported that “the lady members had been indulging in tennis, cricket and baseball.”</p>

|Headline=Newburyport MA Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games |Game=Cricket

|Game=Base Ball, Cricket ...where they took up various activities, including "exhilarating" games of "cricket, base ball, and other recreations."</p>

...ort out what the English safe-haven games Pentoss (a form of ladies&rsquo; cricket) and Target Ball were all about.&nbsp; She and her daughter play stoolball,

|Game=Cricket, Wicket ...mes, their games, their individual haunts, we watched them at football and cricket [page 40]"</p>

|Name=Excelsior Club of West Troy v Watervliet Cricket Club on 10 August 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

..., and, additionally, “various games were indulged in, those not engaged in cricket participating in a game of lawn tennis, quoits, base ball, bowls, etc.”</

...eph Strutt Says Stoolball Still Played in North of England; But He Slights Cricket ...t Strutt views a game he calls "club ball" as the precursor to this set of games, but notes that modern scholars are skeptical about this proposition.</p>

|Headline=A Tip for Good Health: Cricket for the Blokes, Bass-ball for the Lasses |Text=<p>"With the same intention [that is children's health], the games of cricket, prison bars, foot ball, &amp;c. will be useful, as children grow up, and a

|Tags=US cricket clubs, |Text=<p>"AMATEUR GAMES -- The Manhattan Cricket Club played baseball with the Knickerbockers on the 28th [August 1872] . .

|Game=Cricket ...&c. . . . [w]e wrestled and ran, played at quoits, at cricket, and various games of bat and ball, whose names perhaps are obsolete."</p>

...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> ...is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball playing.</p>

...cket Grounds, Camac's Woods, Philadelphia. The site was first enclosed for cricket in 1859 and used for baseball on July 24, 1860.</span></p> ...a vs. St. George", in&nbsp;</span><em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century&nbsp;</em><span>(SABR, 2013), pp. 32-33</span></p>

|Headline=One of the Earliest Public Notices of a Cricket Match? |Game=Cricket

|Headline="The Playground" Gives Insight into Rounders, Trap-ball, and Cricket Rules and Customs ...style="text-decoration: underline;">The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games</span> [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books.<

|Name=Clifton Club of Staten Island v St. George’s Cricket Club on 17 October 1860 |Entry Origin=Games Tab

|Headline=Cricket and Bass Long Played in Pittsfield MA |Game=Cricket,Bass

|Headline=English Immigrants from Surrey See Cricket, Trap Ball in IL |Game=Cricket,Trap Ball

|Headline=Thaw Arrives; Cricket Added to Old List of "Evening" English Pastimes ...hours of hard work, they will go in the evening to foot-ball, stool-ball, cricket, prison-base, wrestling, cudgel-playing, and some such vehement exercise, f

|Headline=College Prez Was a Klutz at Ball and Cricket |Game=Cricket

|Game=Barn Ball, Old-Cat Games, American Cricket, ...ed barn ball, one old cat, and two old cat in my&nbsp; early boyhood days, cricket was my favorite game, and until I enlisted in the army I never played a reg

...ine=Dickens Names Cricket, but not Stoolball or Rounders, Among "Merriest" Games |Game=Cricket,Rounders

|Headline=No English Reference Claimed for the Word "Cricket" Found Before 1550 ...is, of course, not impossible that its forerunner was one of the many ball games played with unidentifiable rules, as for instance club ball."</p>

|Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland</span>, Volume 2&nbsp;(New ...allows that one source speculates that this game may have morphed evolved cricket: see Supplemental Text, below.</p>

...d club defends the wicket. Some students of cricket note that it resembles cricket before it evolved to its modern form, with its higher narrower wicket.</p> ...low) includes, as a final word on cricket, an account of a simpler form of cricket, this view:</p>

...cket Grounds, Camac's Woods, Philadelphia. The site was first enclosed for cricket in 1859 and used for baseball on July 24, 1860.</p> ...adelphia vs. St. George", in&nbsp;<em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century&nbsp;</em>(SABR, 2013), pp. 32-33</p>

|Name=Albany Cricket Grounds <p>Other games played on the "Parade Ground."</p>

|Headline=Small Cambridge MA Schoolground Crimps Base and Cricket Play |Game=Cricket,Base

|Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |Game=Cricket, Old-Cat Games, Town Ball

|Name=Nassau Cricket Club v Columbia Club in 1876 |Home Team=Nassau Cricket Club

...years past “heavy batting nines” have made it a “point” in making up their games to secure the privilege of selecting the ball, and having had balls special

|Headline=Cricket Prohibited On or Near English Highways, We <i>Mean</i> It ...r game then, as far as we know LMc] , fives, cricket, or any other game or games upon such road, or on the side or sides thereof, or in any exposed situatio

|Headline=Text Perceives Rounders and Cricket, in Everyday French Conversations |Game=Cricket, Rounders

...k, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, pages 211-212. This book's section "Games with Toys" includes two variants of rounders. Block's summary:</p> ...with the ball before a base runner reached it. It is noteworthy that this cricket-baseball hybrid did not include the practice of 'soaking' or 'plugging' the

..., Baserunning, English Rounders 1820-1870, Massachusetts Game, Predecessor Games

...ames&rdquo; in Argentina, Bermuda, Burma, the Netherlands, Panama (a&nbsp; Cricket and Baseball Club in 1883, yet), Uruguay and several other nations.&nbsp;&n

...icient, where they can fly their kites, and play little games at tut-ball, cricket, football, &c. If men were to have the ground for their matches that would

|Headline=Confederate soldiers in need of base ball and cricket bats ...a supply cast, and let our soldiers know where they can be procured?&nbsp; Cricket and base ball bats are also wanted, and a few dozen substantial foot balls

...s where our early knowledge of cricket and base-ball came from. The first cricket match I ever played in was with the Third Eleven of New York Club against t ...match games of base-ball. In 1865 I was professional to the Philadelphia Cricket Club for that season, when I used to get off every Wednesday to play base-b

...ir games, their individual haunts, &ndash; we watched them at football and cricket [page 40]" ...bridge school "there was perpetual playing of ball and fascinating running games [page 20]".

|Headline=Character in Fictional Autobiography Played Cricket, Base-Ball |Game=Cricket

|Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. |Game=Cricket

|Game=Cricket ...in Philadelphia, were but one expression of this spirit. Officers set up cricket grounds and were glad of outside competition. . [text refers to cock-fighti

...th of all ages assembled, and baseball, cricket, football, and other merry games heartily entered into."</p>

|Name=Chiriqui Province team v Panama Cricket and Baseball Club on 7 January 1883 |Away Team=Panama Cricket and Baseball Club

...in a base ball match than there is in doing the same thing in cricket, and cricket professionals are, as a class, as honest as any that can be found–the Wri

...a town in nearby West Sussex. According to a newspaper report, “a match of cricket is to be played between the married and single gentlemen. Trap, brace ball, ...friendly territory for safe haven ball games. It sports one of the oldest cricket clubs (1771) and has been a hotspot for stool-ball since the mid-19th centu

...arade ground there were played 1,430 games of base ball, 23 foot ball, 113 cricket and 7 lacrosse.</p>

|Headline=Eventual National League Prexy Sticks with Cricket in War Camp |Game=Cricket, Base Ball,

<p>baseball and cricket and American and British national characters</p> ...onal tendencies. But in the actual case the generative principles of both games between the same, the investigator is confident at once that the explanatio

|Game=Cricket ...they ever played such a game. I also have no information about where this cricket game was played, or who took part.</p>

...and others from the surrounding neighbourhood, and the usual games such as cricket, football, bassball, and bat-trap, were entered into with great zest and co