This too was America : Philadelphia's era of cricket

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This too was America : Philadelphia's era of cricket

Tom Melville

McFarland, c2023

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Cricket in America achieved its greatest acclaim, most extensive organization and highest level of competition in Philadelphia in the mid-19th century. The city took upon itself the burden of representing the entire U.S. during the sport's emerging international popularity. It was a story of amazing successes, abysmal failures and engaging personalities--like John B. King, revered to this day as one of the all-time greatest players--and eventual decline and demise. This meticulously researched history examines the origin and rise of a sport's legacy that, even in its demise, would endure as a lost vision of America's sporting destiny.

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Table of Contents Prologue A Note on Technical Cricket Terms One. New York/Philadelphia Cricket and the Ball-Playing Spring of the 1840s Two. The Rise of Philadelphia Cricket and the Uncertainty of a Sporting Identity Three. ­Post–Civil War Cricket and Baseball and the Divergence of a Sporting Culture Four. Guardian of a Sporting Alternative Five. Young America, the Hargreaves Family, and the Assertion of Nativism Six. Intern to Internationalism Seven. Clubs, Players, and the Flowering of Late 19th-Century Philadelphia Cricket Eight. Ambivalence of Destiny Nine. “A Civilization of Its Own”: The World of Late 19th-Century Philadelphia Cricket Ten. Visions of Viability: The England Tour of 1903 Eleven. Twilight of Internationalism and the Drift from Nativism Twelve. Decline, Denial, and Dreams: The Passing of Philadelphia Cricket Epilogue Appendix: Casual Olympian Chapter Notes Bibliographic Essay Index

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