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The Tented Field: A History of Cricket in America
Tom Melville
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| #578253 in Books | 1998-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.65 x5.98l,.94 | File type: PDF | 290 pages||10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Slow Pitch|By E. T. Veal|Sports histories fall into two categories: fans' histories - replete with memorable games, famous players, rules changes, league standings, and team and individual records - and academics' histories, which brush aside those matters in favor of sociology, cultural analysis and politics. While Tom Melville is a cricket fan (author of a proselytizing p|From Library Journal|Cricket is not a game synonymous with North America. The only two books published on the game in the United States are by cricket player and teacher Melville. Far more than a chronological record, this study examines a sport that resisted ch
Tom Melville presents a well-documented history of cricket playing in America, focusing on its period of growth in the 1840s and its periodic revivals. Cricket failed to take on, or resisted, an American identity, but the sport had considerable appeal both as a sport and as an activity that fostered sportsmanship, control, public manners, and decorum. Cricket found acceptance mainly in the upper class but also appealed to working-class people.
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