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''The American Cricketer'' was the publication of record for the club,
cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
in the United States for more than half a century. The slim magazine was first published in
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in 1877 and continued to see the print through 1929, a total of 52 years. It was published weekly over the summer cricketing season, and monthly over winter. George Newhall of the Newhall cricketing family of Philadelphia was one of its editors.


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Young America Cricket Club The Young America Cricket Club (YACC) was founded on 19 November 1855 at the house of William Wister after the Germantown Cricket Club team refused to allow young players to gain cricket experience through match participation. Owen Wister, the nephe ...


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* ''The American Cricketer,'
Volumes 38-39
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