This article is more than 11 years old How Philadelphia became the unlikely epicenter of American cricket

cricket was America’s first modern team sport. These may be strange words to write; even stranger to read them. The United States of America, as recently as the turn of the last century, possessed cricketing talent on par with England, Australia, and other cricket nations. And then it all ended. Cricket’s American roots run deep and gnarled through the soil of American history. In fact, it predates the establishment of the United States by nearly a century, if not more. The New York Weekly Gazette and Post Boy from 29 April 1751 has a report of a match played between...