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To: HartleyMBaldwin

We have a place in MA called the Longwood Cricket Club but cricket is no longer played there…it’s all tennis

Weird .

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22 posted on 12/10/2023 6:24:47 PM PST by Mears
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To: Mears

It might be a vestige from pre Civil War days. At that time when baseball was in it’s infancy it and cricket were about equal in America in popularity. The Civil War changed that as baseball was played by soldiers in their camps and spread the game far and wide. By the end of the war baseball was king and cricket had faded to almost nothing in America.


40 posted on 12/11/2023 8:07:03 AM PST by xp38
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