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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.
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