Pre-1840 American cricket and the formation of a national sporting culture
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| Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Cricket in Amerika vor 1840 und die Entstehung einer nationalen Sportkultur |
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| Autor: | Melville, Tom |
| Erschienen in: | Sporting traditions |
| Veröffentlicht: | 27 (2010), 1, S. 49-65, Lit. |
| Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
| Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
| Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISSN: | 0813-2577, 0813-2577 |
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| Erfassungsnummer: | PU201011008587 |
| Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract
The long standing question of why cricket failed as an American sport is approached through the pre-modern (pre-1840) history of American cricket. Isolated from major sporting developments in England during the eighteenth century, American cricket was set on a cultural path as a low-skill, informal pastime. When modern cricket appeared in New York City with the immigrant English clubs of the 1840s and 1850s, Americans chose to assert the entrenched cultural tradition of bat and ball play through baseball, rather than adapt to the new sporting culture that was represented by mid-nineteenth century English cricket. Verf.-Referat