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… of ‘Lord’s’). Originally called the White Conduit Club (because the players, who gathered at the Star and Garter Inn on Pall Mall, played on the White Conduit Fields in Islington), it moved to Lord’s first ground (on the site of the modern Dorset … The Boydell Press, 2018). Lewis, Tony, Double century: the Story of MCC and Cricket (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987). Mallinckrodt, Rebekka von (ed.), A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment (1650‒1800) , vol. 4 of …
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