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In the years before baseball became our national pastime, Americans young and old played a variety of other bat and ball games. The state of Connecticut held a preference for wicket, a primitive form of English cricket that developed into a distinctively American game. In this virtual lecture, Alex Dubois will examine surviving evidence of wicket play in eighteenth-century America before tracing the game’s history in Connecticut and New York, including an analysis of wicket rules and equipment.