This Too Was America
This Too Was America

Author: Tom Melville

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2023-02-17

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1476691282

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Cricket in America achieved its greatest acclaim, most extensive organization and highest level of competition in Philadelphia in the mid-19th century. The city took upon itself the burden of representing the entire U.S. during the sport's emerging international popularity. It was a story of amazing successes, abysmal failures and engaging personalities--like John B. King, revered to this day as one of the all-time greatest players--and eventual decline and demise. This meticulously researched history examines the origin and rise of a sport's legacy that, even in its demise, would endure as a lost vision of America's sporting destiny.

Cricket For Dummies
Cricket For Dummies

Author: Julian Knight

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 9781119996569

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Whether you’re a weekend cricketer or aspiring armchair expert, Cricket For Dummies helps you make sense of this fascinating sport. Not just a jargon busting guide to cricket’s laws, techniques and tactics, it also contains advice on kitting yourself out and provides lessons on playing the game and improving your batting, bowling and fielding skills. For the budding fan, there’s a guide to the greatest players, the memorable matches, and a tour through the cricketing scene – both domestic and international – giving you the knowledge you need to fully appreciate this special game. This book has been updated for the Ashes 2009, featuring revised information on new players, the Indian premier league, Stanford 20:20 and the latest coverage of past and future competitions. Julian Knight is a BBC journalist, writer, and cricket enthusiast. He is a former youth coach and captain, and has been a club cricketer for over 20 years. Consultant Editor Gary Palmer played first class cricket for ten years with Somerset before becoming a professional coach.

A Century of Philadelphia Cricket
A Century of Philadelphia Cricket

Author: John A. Lester

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1512803944

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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.

Learn to play Cricket
Learn to play Cricket

Author: MARGAO CRICKET ACADE

Publisher: Partridge Publishing India

Published: 2014-07-07

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1482822261

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This book is written exclusively for the smalll kids of the age group of 8 to 14. This is a reference book for those small kids who, probably, have not understood the demonstration and explanation by his or her coach on a particular day. The kid will then open this manual and by seeing the pictures and the short explanation which accompanies the photos in the form of labeling will give the correct insights to the player and that player will go to the coach and easily correct himself.