Excerpt from Sports and Recreations in Town and Country Some twelve years ago the late Mr. Baily, the publisher and originator of Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes - which is familiarly kwn w as The Old Green Cover - asked me if I could contribute an article on cricket in the days of the grand old Kent and Sussex elevens, as one of the greatest sportsmen in England, who took an interest in the magazine (and who died in 1884), was anxious that a record of past cricket heroes should be preserved in its pages. Happening to have kwn Fuller Pilch for the last twenty-five years of his life, I put in writing all that I could remember which had fallen from his lips - during many a long evening spent with him under the name of Fuller Pilch's Back Parlour, which appeared in a book of mine, published in the summer of 1887 by Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., under the title of The Game of Cricket. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.