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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The American Cricketer written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Melville
Publisher : Bowling Green University Popular Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Cricket for Americans written by Tom Melville and published by Bowling Green University Popular Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Melville
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879727703
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The Tented Field written by Tom Melville and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an analytical explanation of why cricket failed as an American sporting institution. Devotes much attention to the rise of organized American sports immediately before and after the Civil War and interprets this phenomenon in the context of both its premodern American history as well as its development up to the First World War. The geographical focus is on the larger urban areas of the Atlantic seaboard, but other urban and rural areas are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : P. David Sentance
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786420405
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Cricket in America, 1710-2000 written by P. David Sentance and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket was played in Virginia in 1710 and was enjoyed on Georgia plantations in 1737. Teams representing New York and Philadelphia faced each other as early as 1838. By 1865, Philadelphia was considered the best cricket-playing city in the United States, competing against Canadian, English and Australian teams from 1890 to 1920. This 30 year span was essential to the formation of America's sports identity--and by its end, while the sport of baseball drew increasing attention, the game of cricket moved from being the game of America's aristocrats to a safe haven for America's nonwhite immigrants who were excluded from baseball because of Jim Crow laws. Here, the game's unique multi-ethnic, religious and cultural tradition in the United States is fully explored. The author explains cricket's ties to the beginnings of baseball and covers the ways in which the game continues to play an important role in America's inner cities.
Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802719066
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Eye of the Cricket written by James Sallis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.
Author : Derek Birley
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1845137507
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)
Download or read book A Social History of English Cricket written by Derek Birley and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as a magisterial, classic work, A Social History of English Cricket is an encyclopaedic survey of the game, from its humble origins all the way to modern floodlit finishes. But it is also the story of English culture, mirrored in a sport that has always been a complex repository of our manners, hierarchies and politics. Derek Birley’s survey of the impact on cricket of two world wars, Empire and ‘the English caste system’, will, contends Ian Wooldridge, ‘teach an intelligent child of twelve more about their heritage than he or she will ever pick up at school.’ In just under 400 pages Birley takes us through a rich historical tapestry: how the game was snatched from rustic obscurity by gentlemanly gamblers; became the height of late eighteenth century metropolitan fashion; was turned into both symbol and synonym for British imperialism; and its more recent struggle to dislodge the discomforting social values preserved in the game from its imperial heyday. Superbly witty and humorous, peopled by larger-than-life characters from Denis Compton to Ian Botham, and wholly forswearing nostalgia, A Social History of English Cricket is a tour-de-force by one of the great writers on cricket.
Author : Marianne Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780812626957
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Celebrate Cricket written by Marianne Carus and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of stories, poems, and illustrations from Cricket, along with reminiscences about the magazine and color reproductions of Cricket cover art.
Author : Jones Wister
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book A "Bawl" for American Cricket written by Jones Wister and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A "Bawl" for American Cricket" by Jones Wister. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Timothy Abraham
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472132505
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion written by Timothy Abraham and published by Constable. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A highly entertaining read, deftly melding social history with sporting memoir and travelogue' Mail on Sunday A history of Latin America through cricket Cricket was the first sport played in almost every country of the Americas - earlier than football, rugby or baseball. In 1877, when England and Australia played the inaugural Test match at the MCG, Uruguay and Argentina were already ten years into their derby played across the River Plate. The visionary cricket historian Rowland Bowen said that, during the highpoint of cricket in South America between the two World Wars, the continent could have provided the next Test nation. In Buenos Aires, where British engineers, merchants and meatpackers flocked to make their fortune, the standard of cricket was high: towering figures like Lord Hawke and Plum Warner took star-studded teams of Test cricketers to South America, only to be beaten by Argentina. A combined Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean team took on the first-class counties in England in 1932. The notion of Brazilians and Mexicans playing T20 at the Maracana or the Azteca today is not as far-fetched as it sounds. But Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion is also a social history of grit, industry and nation-building in the New World. West Indian fruit workers battled yellow fever and brutal management to carve out cricket fields next to the railway lines in Costa Rica. Cricket was the favoured sport of Chile's Nitrate King. Emperors in Brazil and Mexico used the game to curry favour with Europe. The notorious Pablo Escobar even had a shadowy connection to the game. The fate of cricket in South America was symbolised by Eva Peron ordering the burning down of the Buenos Aires Cricket Club pavilion when the club refused to hand over their premises to her welfare scheme. Cricket journalists Timothy Abraham and James Coyne take us on a journey to discover this largely untold story of cricket's fate in the world's most colourful continent. Fascinating and surprising, Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion is a valuable addition to cricketing and social history.
Author : George B. Kirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Baseball and Cricket written by George B. Kirsch and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Baseball and Cricket' places the growing popularity of the two sports within the social context of mid 19th century American cities. The text follows baseball's transition from a leisure sport to a commercialised, professional enterprise and offers a discussion of the early American cricket clubs.
Author : James Astill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608199177
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Great Tamasha written by James Astill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of cricket in India, discussing the creation of the Twenty20 cricket league and the corruption and scandal that followed.
Author : Scyld Berry
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473618576
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Cricket: The Game of Life written by Scyld Berry and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Cricket Writers' Club Book of the Year 2016 Shortlisted for the MCC Book of the Year Shortlisted for Cricket Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards Scyld Berry draws on his experiences as a cricket writer of forty years to produce new insights and unfamiliar historical angles on the game, along with moving reflections on episodes from his own life. The author covers a range of themes including cricket in different areas of the world, and abstract concepts such as language, numbers, ethics and psychology; Scyld Berry relishes the joys cricket provides and is convinced of the positive effect it can have in people's lives. Cricket: The Game of Life is an inspiring book that reminds readers why they love the game and prompts them to look at it in a new way.
Author : John A. Lester
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512803944
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book A Century of Philadelphia Cricket written by John A. Lester and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Henry Chadwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chadwick's American Cricket Manual written by Henry Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509841407
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Picador Book of Cricket written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when major English writers – P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh – took time off to write about cricket, whereas the cricket book market today is dominated by ghosted autobiographies and statistical compendiums. The Picador Book of Cricket celebrates the best writing on the game and includes many pieces that have been out of print, or difficult to get hold of, for years. Including Neville Cardus, C. L. R. James, John Arlott, V. S. Naipaul, and C. B. Fry, this anthology is a must for any cricket follower or anyone interested in sports writing elevated to high art.
Author : Jon Gemmell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319763393
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Cricket's Changing Ethos written by Jon Gemmell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest. It goes on to show how such values were then adapted as part of the imperial experiment and were eventually rejected and replaced with an ethos that better reflected the interests of new dominant elites. The work examines the impact of globalisation and marketization on cricket and analyses the shift from an English dominance, on a sport that is ever-increasingly being shaped by Asian forces. The book’s distinctiveness lies in trying to decode the spirit of the game, outlining a set of actual characteristics rather than a vague sense of values. An historical analysis shows how imperialism, nationalism, commercialism and globalisation have shaped and adapted these characteristics. As such it will be of interest to students and scholars of sport sociology, post-colonialism, globalisation as well as those with an interest in the game of cricket and sport more generally.
Author : John Broom
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526780143
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Cricket in the First World War written by John Broom and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Europe descended into war over the summer of 1914, cricket in England continued as it had for the preceding few decades. Counties continued with their championship programme, clubs in the North and Midlands maintained their league and cup rivalries whilst less competitive clubs elsewhere enjoyed friendly matches. However, voices were soon raised in criticism of this ‘business as usual’ approach – most notably that of cricket’s Grand Old Man, W.G. Grace. Names became absent from first-class and club scorecards as players left for military service and by the end of the year it was clear that 1915’s cricket season would be very different. And so it would continue for four summers. Rolls of honour lengthened as did the grim lists of cricket’s dead and maimed. Some club cricket did continue in wartime Britain, often amidst bitter disputes as to its appropriateness. Charity matches were organised to align the game with the national war effort. As the British Empire rallied behind the mother country, so cricket around the world became restricted and players from far and wide joined the sad ranks of sacrifice. Cricket emerged into the post-war world initially unsure of itself but the efforts that had been made to sustain the game’s infrastructure during the conflict ensured that it would experience a second golden age between the wars.
