Table of Contents Prologue A Note on Technical Cricket Terms One. New York/Philadelphia Cricket and the Ball-Playing Spring of the 1840s Two. The Rise of Philadelphia Cricket and the Uncertainty of a Sporting Identity Three. ­Post-Civil War Cricket and Baseball and the Divergence of a Sporting Culture Four. Guardian of a Sporting Alternative Five. Young America, the Hargreaves Family, and the Assertion of Nativism Six. Intern to Internationalism Seven. Clubs, Players, and the Flowering of Late 19th-Century Philadelphia Cricket Eight.

Ambivalence of Destiny Nine. "A Civilization of Its Own": The World of Late 19th-Century Philadelphia Cricket Ten. Visions of Viability: The England Tour of 1903 Eleven. Twilight of Internationalism and the Drift from Nativism Twelve. Decline, Denial, and Dreams: The Passing of Philadelphia Cricket Epilogue Appendix: Casual Olympian Chapter Notes Bibliographic Essay Index.