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I am a reporter, & also own a small ranch. This blog was started to give me the opportunity to express things I couldn't in print, especially on spiritual matters. In this way, I neither compromise my journalistic objectivity, nor step on any professional toes.
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Back home briefly, ere heading out again tomorrow. On my trip, read a fascinating book: The Creation of American TEam Sports: Baseball and Cricket 1832-1878, by George Kirsch. It examined the role of baseball & cricket in American sports...how they had started out on fairly equal terms, & how baseball pulled ahead towards the end of the 19th Century & became the national game in America. He found several reasons for this. One, it was a younger sport (cricket emerging somewhere during the mists of the middle ages), & therefore more adaptable to American tastes. There was also an indifference by the Marylebone Cricket Club--which guided the fortunes of the sport--to the United States, & many who played the sport in the US didn't seem eager to share it with native-born Americans. Curiously, One Dayers, or Limited Overs, Cricket (the most popular form of cricket in the world today), was actually proposed shortly before the Civil War as more expedient & more attuned to American rhythms, but the idea was dismissed, back then. And as America became more a nation of spectators, baseball was thought to be more spectator-friendly. One of the revelations in this book is that the center, & hotbed , of American cricket was Philadelphia, & cricket remained popular there into the heart of the 20th Century.
I get to sleep in my own bed tonight. Then, off again.
::: at 03:38
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