1754 - The first reference to cricket being played in Maryland.
“Last Week a Cricket Match was play’d in Mr. Murdock’s old field in Prince George’s County, between Eleven of that county, and Eleven South River Gentlemen (from Anne Arundel County) and that the Prince Georgians were Beat.”
-Maryland Gazette, November 14, 1754
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