For a number of years, I have walked around the
track in Overpeck County Park, not
far from where I live in Bergen County, NJ, and have seen a number of other
park users, many of whom were involved in athletic activities. This weekend,
however, I was startled by what you see here in this photo I took.
It started with the players, in particular the ones toward the foreground of the shot: Why was there that contraption in the
ground around that? And that bat—why was it wider at one end than just about every baseball
bat I could recall, and colored differently?
And then it hit me: I wasn’t watching baseball, but
an impromptu game of cricket. And the
voices in the field were laughing and shouting encouragement with a marked
accent. Though not English, they bore every sign of having adopted their longtime
colonial rulers’ voice intonations and even national game.
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