'The Hambledon Game', (1941). The village of Hambledon in Hampshire is considered the birthplace of the English game of cricket. By the late 1770s the Hambledon Club was the foremost cricket club in England. From "British Sport", by Eric Parker. [Collins, London, 1941]

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