PalenQ

Today's NYtimes carries an article "A Playing Field of England Celebrates Two Games" - describing an exhibit at London's celebrated Lord's Cricet Ground that celebrates both the similarities and difference in cricket and baseball - organized by both the Marylebone Cricet Club ("for more than 200 years THE rule make worldwide for ciriket') and Cooperstown, NY Baseball Hall of Fame, where the exhibit will move next April after London.

Some excerpts i found interesting:

"For the English cricket has always been a gentlemen's game - with decorum prized as high as the grace of a batsman's strokes - above all the principle of playing honorably is more important than winning"

(Well there is one glaring difference between cricket and baseball!

"Baseball, by contrast, has been seen by most cricet players as a vulgarization of the true bat-and-ball game, which Rudyard Kipling said defined what it was to be British"

(Cricket defines what it is to be British - what rubbish!)

'the baseball bat Babe Ruth used to hit his final 3 home runs is part of the display"

"the idea that baseball was an American game in its origins is a popular and powerful myth" (said Beth Hise - co-curator of the exhibit - "she attributes the myth to A G Spalding, prominent 19th century baseball player and founder of a sporting goods company who declared in 1908 'that baseball was an American game invented in 1839 by Abner Doubelday. In fact, the curators say, baseball or base-ball as it was then known, originated in England at least as early as the first decades of the 18th-century, perhaps earlier, and then was taken to the U.S. by 19th-century immigrants."

Anyway i tried to Google a link and failed as the article has lots of interesting tidbits about both cricket and base-ball.

And if a base-ball and or cricet fan check out the exhibit at the hallowed Lord's cricket ground.

PalenQ

Ok found some links

London Journal - Cricket and Baseball Find Common Ground in ...
Jul 14, 2010 ... A statue of a batsman at Lord's cricket ground. An exhibit there on cricket and baseball is to move to Cooperstown, N.Y., next year. ...
www.nytimes.com/2010/07/.../15cricket.html

Lord's Cricket Ground - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Much of Lord's Cricket Ground was rebuilt in the late 20th century. .... A recently opened exhibition, which celebrates the life and career of Brian Lara ... A baseball game was held at Lord's during the Great War to raise funds for the ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord's_Cricket_Ground

New cricket & baseball exhibition - News Archive - News - Lord's
New cricket & baseball exhibition. Date released: 20 May 2010 ... of a groundbreaking new exhibition set to open at Lord's Cricket Ground in early May. ...
http://www.lords.org/latest.../new-c...n,1564,NS.html

Fashionista

Pakistan are playing Australia until the 17th, but the way the scores are going it will be all over long before Saturday.

I'm in London on the 24th so I may take a gander.

Thanks for the links.

alanRow

Baseball was invented in England

BigRuss

Yawn, so was soccer. Seems both sports have been perfected far from their birthplace.

Hooameye

Cricket was developed from a game called Stoolball, played in the middle ages by milkmaids:
http://www.stoolball.org.uk/rules/what-is-stoolball/
My wife has played it for years (I think she was in the original team)!!!
I was told at school (many years ago) that Baseball was developed from Rounders which was an Irish game, BTW rounders is still played at some UK junior schools.

Josser

CW's favourite female author mentions base-ball in Northanger Abbey.

Let's face it, we invented 'em all apart from lacrosse and polo.
American football is just a version of Rugby or Rugger as no doubt Americans prefer to call it ;-)

Kate

"For the English cricket has always been a gentlemen's game - with decorum prized as high as the grace of a batsman's strokes - above all the principle of playing honorably is more important than winning"

This is indeed the case. We even have a common phrase for an action which is dishonourable: 'it's just not cricket'.

PatrickLondon

Baseball is hardly a vulgarisation of cricket. Its more relaxd country cousin, perhaps, at least in the version known to us as rounders - I used to be quite good at that. When I was about nine or ten.