More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years
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John Major. More Than A Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years
MORE THAN A GAME
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
The Lost Century of Cricket
The Early Patrons
The Later Patrons
The Men Who Made Cricket
Cricket Spreads: Early Roots
The Round-Arm Rebellion
The Mandarins of Lord’s
The Rise and Fall of Single-Wicket
The Missionary and the Mercenaries
Wider Still and Wider: Cricket Goes Abroad
The Birth of the Ashes
The Boom in Leisure: Competition for Cricket
The Cricketers and the Counties
The Chroniclers and the Scribes
The Autocrats
The Grand Old Man and the Backroom Boy
Your English Summer’s Done
Afterword
‘Articles of Agreement by & between His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Mr. Brodrick (for two Cricket Matches) concluded the Eleventh of July 1727’
Rules of the White Conduit Club
Laws for Single Wicket (1831)
Important Single-Wicket Matches 1800–1848
‘In Memoriam, Alfred Mynn 1807–1861’
Acknowledgements
Index
Copyright
About the Publisher
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To Norma, Elizabeth, James and Luke
PREFACE
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* At a conference at Hampton Court between Anglicans and Puritans in January 1604, James backed the Anglican bishops. Shortly afterwards, a hundred Puritan ministers were dismissed from their livings.
* The children were William Martin, Richard Martin Junior and Raphe West, playing with two friends, Edward Hartley and Richard Slaughter.
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