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Death of Frederick Lillywhite — End of an Era for Cricket Publishing, 1866

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1866-09-15

Frederick William Lillywhite, the cricket publisher who had founded the The Guide to Cricketers in 1849 and the encyclopaedic Scores and Biographies in 1862, died at Brighton on 15 September 1866 aged just 37. His death scattered the Lillywhite publishing operation among rival relatives, removed the only direct competitor to John Wisden's three-year-old Almanack, and turned Wisden from one cricket annual among many into the inheritor of the field.

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John Wisden Publishes the First Cricketers' Almanack — Spring 1864

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1864-04-01

Retired Sussex bowler John Wisden, proprietor of a sports outfitters in Cranbourn Street, brought out the first edition of The Cricketer's Almanack in the spring of 1864. The 112-page shilling pamphlet, padded with the dates of the English Civil War and the winners of the St Leger, was a competitor to Fred Lillywhite's existing Guide and would grow into the longest-running sports annual in history.

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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.

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