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John Wisden — From Cricketer to Publisher: The Seeds of the Almanack, 1850–1864
United All-England Eleven and various
1850-01-01
The decade of the 1850s was, for John Wisden, a transition from cricketer to entrepreneur. Having bowled all ten North batsmen at Lord's in 1850, co-founded the UAEE in 1852 and retired from serious cricket by the early 1860s, Wisden channelled his commercial energy into a sports goods shop and then, in 1864, into the publication that bears his name — the world's oldest sports annual.
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