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* 'Original.engrossing.lucid and informative' - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, THE TIMES * 'Quite simply it is brilliant' - THE CRICKETER * 'Ed Smith is superb on analysing the different techniques involved in the two activities. He also writes with great insight. excellent on the social and historical contexts of both baseball and cricket.' Sunday Telegraph
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A cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin, and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University and Kent batsman - has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team. It has enabled him to contrast and compare arguably the two most iconic of sports from the inside. In fact, baseball had a thriving following in Britain until the early part of the 20th century (Derby County's former stadium was called the Baseball Ground; Tottenham Hotspur was at first a baseball club). Apart from learning two very different techniques, Ed learned that the sports' ultimate heroes, the Babe and the Don - Babe Ruth and Don Bradman - might as well have come from different planets, whilst baseball's pristine Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is a far cry from the ramshackle cricket museum at Lord's. The book paints a two-sided portrait of sports' most illustrious "hitting games". Written with the passion and sympathy of a genuine fan, it contains the behind-the-scenes insights of a professional player.
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* 'Original.engrossing.lucid and informative' - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, THE TIMES * 'Quite simply it is brilliant' - THE CRICKETER * 'Ed Smith is superb on analysing the different techniques involved in the two activities. He also writes with great insight. excellent on the social and historical contexts of both baseball and cricket.' Sunday Telegraph
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A cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin, and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University and Kent batsman - has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team. It has enabled him to contrast and compare arguably the two most iconic of sports from the inside. In fact, baseball had a thriving following in Britain until the early part of the 20th century (Derby County's former stadium was called the Baseball Ground; Tottenham Hotspur was at first a baseball club). Apart from learning two very different techniques, Ed learned that the sports' ultimate heroes, the Babe and the Don - Babe Ruth and Don Bradman - might as well have come from different planets, whilst baseball's pristine Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is a far cry from the ramshackle cricket museum at Lord's. The book paints a two-sided portrait of sports' most illustrious "hitting games". Written with the passion and sympathy of a genuine fan, it contains the behind-the-scenes insights of a professional player.
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Cricket and baseball are like parents and their teenage children: they have so much in common and yet remain a total mystery to each other. Read the first page
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Cricket and baseball are like parents and their teenage children: they have so much in common and yet remain a total mystery to each other. Read the first page
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