Tioga Cricket Club Explained

The Tioga Cricket Club was a cricket club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] The club played their home matches at the self-titled "Tioga Cricket Club Ground", based on Westmoreland Street in Tioga, Philadelphia.[2] Their first recorded match was in 1887,[3] and in 1890, they joined the Halifax Cup, a formal tournament between a number of cricket clubs in the Philadelphia region.[4] The club was the initial home of Bart King,[5] who was described in his Wisden Cricketers' Almanack obituary as "beyond question the greatest all-round cricketer produced by America."[6] Along with the other teams in the area, Tioga contributed players to the Philadelphian cricket team, who played a number of first-class cricket matches against English opposition.[7] The club disbanded following the 1896 season.[4]

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Bibliography

Book: Melville, Tom . The Tented Field: A History of Cricket in America . 1998 . Bowling Green State University Popular Press . 0-87972-769-1.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tioga . CricketArchive . 13 January 2013.
  2. Web site: Tioga Cricket Club Ground, Philadelphia . CricketArchive . 13 January 2013.
  3. Web site: Other Matches played by Tioga . CricketArchive . 13 January 2013 . 7 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307013232/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Teams/4/4807/Other_Matches.html . dead .
  4. Melville (1998), p. 126.
  5. Melville (1998), p. 136.
  6. Web site: Obituaries in 1965 . 26 January 2006 . . 13 January 2013.
  7. Book: Sentance, P. David . Cricket in America, 1710–2000 . 2006 . McFarland & Company, Inc . 0-7864-2040-5 . 93.

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