Pastimes and Players (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Though the earliest mention of our national English game by its modern name of cricket occurs no further back than the reign of Elizabeth, it is quite clear that Britons batted and bowled away merrily long before the days of the Virgin Queen, though they called their pastime by other names.

The name, of course, is of minor importance, if the principle of the games can be proved to be the same, as nothing is more common than to find a pastime with many different names, according to the place where it is played. Thus, rounders is still the same good old English game, though Edinburgh street boys call it dully, and our American cousins have elevated it into their national game under the name of base ball. So with our game: and the only question is whether the identity of cricket with club-ball, stool-ball, and the other names we shall notice below, can be proved as clearly as that of, say, rounders with base-ball, or hockey with shinty and hurling. This question may easily be answered in the affirmative.

Before entering, then, on the history of our great game under its present name, let us glance at some of these Old pastimes, and see if we can find in them the rude beginnings from which the scientific game of today has been built up.

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