Sports Fields: Catching The Cricket Bug

Driven by demographic shifts, the sport is growing at the municipal levelBy Mary Helen SprecherThere’s no end to the number of sports that have been brought to the USA through immigration, such as soccer, field hockey, and rugby. And that’s not even taking into consideration other popular fixtures on the competition calendar like wrestling and track and field. The fact is, one would be hard-pressed to find more than a handful of mainstream sports that do not have roots outside of North America.