Bats, Baronets and Battle: A Social History of Cricket and Cricketers from an East Sussex Town

Name: Bats, Baronets and Battle: A Social History of Cricket and Cricketers from an East Sussex Town
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ISBN: 9781481784283

ISBN-10: 1481784285

ISBN-13: 9781481784283

Edition: 2013

Authors: Tim Dudgeon

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Bats, baronets and Battle is more than just about cricket. This is a history full of colourful characters – eccentric baronets with a fondness for gambling, forthright women who wished to take their role and the game beyond an excuse to wear a pretty dress, and brothers from local villages who played the sport at the highest levels home and abroad. If Sussex was the 'cradle' for the earliest of cricket, the villages around Battle were there at the game's birth. From Georgian times and the murky world of 18th century politics, Tim Dudgeon traces Battle cricket's role from its role in 18th century Georgian gambling though the fear of 19th century rural unrest and the dawn of the professional…

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List price: $30.51
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Author Solutions
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 236
Language: English