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To: Maurya

Sure. Let’s dilute our culture even more.


2 posted on 08/12/2013 1:16:33 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

Jeepers. Can I learn to play cricket? It looks like fun. Don’t be a stick in the mud.


10 posted on 08/12/2013 1:34:20 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Resolute Conservative
Before the Civil War, cricket was competitive with baseball in the US.

Soldiers played it at Valley Forge, and even George Washington joined in once.

Baseball was quicker and didn't require as much preparation of the grounds so it won out, but there were cricket teams and fans in Philadelphia down to around WWI.

You could draw a parallel to soccer which was making headway in the 1920s but couldn't sustain the momentum into the depression, war and post-war period.

11 posted on 08/12/2013 1:34:51 PM PDT by x
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To: Resolute Conservative

The first ever international cricket match:

United States of America versus the British Empire’s Canadian Province, 1844. Canada won by 23 runs.


29 posted on 08/13/2013 11:18:26 AM PDT by Maurya (Dominant then, Dominant again)
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