The History Of Cricket

5 Beautiful Old Books From Yesteryear

And One From The Man Himself, W G Grace!

All On One CD!

1. Cricket W G Grace 1892 (504 pages)

"I CANNOT remember when I began to play cricket. Respect for the truth prevents me from saying I played the first year of my existence, but I have little hesitation in declaring that I handled bat and ball before the end of my second. My family was known as a cricketing family a quarter of a century before I was born. My brothers Henry, Alfred and E. M. were respectively 15, 8 and 7 years of age when I appeared, and though my mother did not lay claim to being considered a player, I am inclined to believe, judging by the light of later years, she knew how to play as well as any of them; she
was certainly most enthusiastic, and ever ready with sound counsel and cheering words."

2. The English Game Of Cricket Comprising A Digest Of It's Origin, Character, History And Progress Charles Box 1877 (518 pages)

"A DISTINGUISHED writer on rural sports, who flourished in the last century, says " Delectando pariterque monendo " should be the design in sending every book into circulation. It is, however, much to be apprehended or feared that real success in this particular falls to the lot of few. Of late years writers on English pastimes have fully equalled the wants of the public."

3. Cricket A G Steel & The Hon. R H Lyttelton 1898 (448 pages)

"Outside of England and before the fortieth year of the reign of Elizabeth, there are no documents for the existence of cricket. Doubtless in rudimentary and embryonic forms, it may have existed. Of those forms we still possess a few, as ' rounders ' and ' stool- ball,' and we can also study degraded shapes of cricket, which naturally revert to the early germs of the pastime as degenerate human types throw back to the monkey. There is a sport known at some schools as 'stump-cricket', 'snobcricket,' or (mysteriously and locally) as ' Dex,' which is a degenerate shape of the game, and which is probably very like the rudimentary shapes. These degradations are reversals or returns to primitive forms."

4. Cricket Horace G Hutchinson Late 1800's (602 pages)

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