#philadelphia

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American Cricket and the Civil War — The Game's Lost American Future, 1861-1865

American club cricket vs baseball

1865-04-09

When the American Civil War began in April 1861, an estimated 10,000 Americans played cricket — more than the entire population of cricketers in Australia. By the time the war ended in April 1865, baseball had effectively replaced cricket as the United States' summer game. The four years of conflict closed clubs, ruined pitches and drove the leading American players into the army; the game would survive in Philadelphia for half a century more but the chance to make cricket America's national sport was lost forever.

#american-cricket#civil-war#philadelphia

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George Parr's Twelve to North America — The First Overseas Cricket Tour, September-October 1859

George Parr's English XII vs USA and Canadian sides (XXII)

1859-09-07

On 7 September 1859 twelve professional English cricketers, captained by the Nottinghamshire batsman George Parr, sailed from Liverpool on the SS Nova Scotian for the first overseas cricket tour in history. Between 24 September and 14 October they played five matches in Canada and the United States — Montreal, Hoboken, Philadelphia, Hamilton and Rochester — winning every one against odds of 22, and laying the foundation for every overseas tour that followed.

#1859-tour#george-parr#north-america

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Cricket in America's Golden Age — Philadelphia and the Game's US Peak, 1840s

US cricket clubs, principally Philadelphia

1845-09-01

The 1840s were the peak decade of American cricket's first golden age. In Philadelphia, Boston and New York, cricket clubs with hundreds of members staged regular inter-city matches before crowds that sometimes rivalled English county fixtures. The Canada v USA international of 1844 was merely the formal expression of a cricket culture that had been building for two decades; by 1845 American cricket looked poised to become a major international force.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s