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During the nineteenth century the established game of English cricket and the fledgling game of American baseball were two summer sports promoted by the press as newspapers embraced sporting news. Periodicals in the United States, which had looked to the English model of sporting news early in the century, surpassed their brethren across the Atlantic after mid-century and, by the 1880s, the English press followed the American lead on sporting news. Baseball and cricket news offer excellent illustrations of the “symbiotic relationship” which provided benefits for the press and sports on both sides of the Atlantic.1 In addition, the incorporation of baseball and cricket news also demonstrates the tension in the transatlantic press between the weakening liberal ideal of instruction and education and the growing dominance of the commercial imperative.2
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Tony Mason, Association Football and English Society, 1863–1915 (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1980), 187
Mark Hampton, Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850–1950 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004)
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McIntire, M. (2007). Embracing Sporting News in England and America: Nineteenth-century Cricket and Baseball News. In: Wiener, J.H., Hampton, M. (eds) Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850–2000. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286221_3
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