Swinging Away: How Cricket and Baseball Connect

[fredfertang]

Swinging Away: How Cricket and Baseball Connect
http://www.cricketweb.net/blog/features/245.php

Former editor of Wisden, Matthew Engel, sets the scene for an important new book that looks at the links between cricket and baseball




http://www.cricketweb.net/blog/features/245.php

 

[Shri]

Made me chuckle:

High-standard cricket persisted in Philadelphia into the 20th century, but only among the famously hoity-toity Philadelphian upper-class, who were also fond of fox hunting.

 

[Dissector]

It is a fascinating subject. IIRC early baseball players often had a cricket background and used some of those skills in baseball and a few decades later Bart King helped refine swing bowling in cricket using some of his baseball skills.

I learnt about the history of cricket in the US only recently. I find it amusing that the first international cricket game was between the US and Canada. In fact it was probably the first international game in any sport and USA-Canada in cricket is apparently the oldest international sporting rivalry.