Curator's correspondence relating to cricket in the United States of America

Reference

MCC/AAL/2/TEMP704

Date:

1886-09-01 - 1971-07-24

Level of description

file

Extent

3 folders

Part of

department correspondence and papers (MCC/AAL/2)

Scope and Content

Curator's correspondence (Diana Rait Kerr, Stephen Green), newspaper cuttings, photographs, pamphlets, menu cards relating to cricket played in the United States of America. Subjects include a guide to cricket published by the Illinois Cricket Association, menu card for a dinner given to English Gentlemen cricketers who played against Staten Island Cricket Club in 1886, photographs of Stephen J Apted, President of the Cheshire Inn and Lodge, Vince Masterson of the United States Cricket Team and Dr Allen Henshall, captain of the Prince Gardner Cricket Team of St. Louis, constitution and bye laws of the United States Cricket Association, plan of tables for a dinner to the Philadelphia Pilgrims Cricket XI at the House of Commons in 1921, requests for the history of the MCC Collection from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, fixture lists for Santa Barbara Cricket Club in 1952 and Staten Island Cricket Club in 1953 and 1961, advice given to cricket clubs on the purchase of cricket books, article in 'The Christian Scientist' newspaper on MCC's decision to allow active professional cricketers to receive honorary membership, newspaper articles on the Savannah Cricket Club in Georgia, information about the Del Monte Cricket Club from J M Southwell, photograph of Southwell with C Aubrey Smith, photograph of an exhibition cricket match played in Chicago including baseball players from Chicago White Sox (Sherman Lollar and Luis Aparicio) and Kansas City, copy of article in the New York Times regarding a cricket match between Pakistan and United States in Randalls Island, New York, newspaper article in the Chicago Sun-Times advertising a cricket match between Chicago and New York, enquiries as to whether a cricket match was played in Savannah in the 1730s, details of the United States Cricket Associations' officers sent to S C Griffith, MCC Secretary, official schedules for Illinois Cricket Association in 1960 and Southern California Cricket Association in 1962, information regarding the centenary of Merion Cricket Club, tributes paid to Bart King, information on a cricket ball signed by Bart King, information on the formation of the C Christopher Morris Cricket Library and Collection, fixture lists for the Yale New Haven Cricket Club in 1967, article on Everton Weekes' appearance for MCC vs. Staten Island Cricket Club in 1967, copy of 'The American Cricketer' for November 1967, biographies of the USA cricket team who toured England in 1968.

Associations

Diana Mary Rait Kerr
Stephen Edgar Alexander Green
Illinois Cricket Association
Staten Island Cricket Club
Vincent V Masterson
United States Cricket Association
National Baseball Hall of Fame
Philadelphia Pilgrims
Santa Barbara Cricket Club
Savannah Cricket Club
Del Monte Cricket Club
New York Times
Sir Charles Aubrey Smith
Stewart Cathie Griffith
Southern California Cricket Association
John Barton King
Yale New Haven Cricket Club
Chicago Cricket Club
Luis Aparicio
John Sherman Lollar
Sir Everton de Courcy Weekes
Merion Cricket Club

Subject

research, menus, American cricket, USA Cricket Team in England 1968, baseball

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

3 folders

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