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Baseball and Cricket : The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72
George B. Kirsch
Paperback - $54.95
How and why Americans chose baseball over its early rival, cricket, as the national pastime George B. Kirsch takes us back to amateur playing fields around the country to re-create the excitement of the early matches, the players, clubs, and their fa ...
Cricket for Dummies
Julian Knight
Paperback - $35.95
Whether you're a weekend cricketer or aspiring armchair expert, "Cricket For Dummies" helps you make sense of this fascinating sport. Not just a jargon busting guide to cricket's laws, techniques and tactics, it also contains advice on kitting yourse ...
Cricketing Cultures in Conflict : World Cup 2003
Boria Majumdar
Hardcover - $306.95
The 2003 Cricket World Cup was of vital importance to the participating countries. For India, a world cup triumph would make cricket the nation's leading industry; for the host, South Africa, a successful campaign might realise its dream of political ...
The Lost Histories of Indian Cricket : Battles of the Pitch
Boria Majumdar
Paperback - $99.95
It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. Yet, when it comes to writing on the history of the game, Indians have been reticent and much of the past has been obscured ...
A History of West Indies Cricket
Michael Manley
Paperback - $69.95
In 1975, the West Indies became the first winners of the cricket World Cup. Their style of cricket has always been ideal for this type of game; exhilarating, stroke-making batsmen; penetrative, wicket-taking bowlers and dynamic, athletic fielders. Fo ...
Crickety Cricket - A Collection of Cricketing Poetry and Caricature
Douglas Moffat
Paperback - $55.95
Crickety Cricket - A Collection Of Cricketing Poetry and CaricatureBy Douglas Moffat 112 pages Contents include: At the nets - Let us toss - The champion - The smiles of grace - Alphabet - A woodcock - Ye cricketers of England - Bob Peel - The captai ...