This British sport using a bat & a ball is popular in Jamaica, the Bahamas & Trinidad & Tobago
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Island Beat (May/June 2000) - Caribbean Beat Magazine ...  Sports: Cricket Goes Disney Mention the word "cricket" at Disney World and most ... Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida, for the British-American ... with a tennis ball, a wider bat, shorter boundaries and less stringent bowling laws. And ... For the past ten years All Sport Promotions of Trinidad and Tobago have...
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Cricket in the West Indies - Wikipedia  Cricket is the second most popular sport in the Caribbean after football In the sport of cricket, ... Cricket originally spread to the West Indies via the British military. ... of an all-white team, while Jamaica's Melbourne Cricket Club was composed of .... of the Windward Islands; Knight Riders  representing Trinidad and Tobago...
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Our Community Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat  The richness and diversity of the use of English in the Caribbean have been captured .... Liam Teague of Trinidad and Tobago is a leading graduate of pan studies from .... of the Bahamas for the 200 metre, 2000; sprint queen, Merlene Ottey of Jamaica ... Netball is a very popular sport among the women in our Community.
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The Skettionary - an online Caribbean dictionary  Bahamas An unappealing, classless woman. - R. battin v. Trinidad & Tobago ... Jamaica 1. Male homosexual. 2. A heterosexual man who is obsessed with the ... for the (now defunct) national airline of Trinidad and Tobago, British West Indian ... so named for it's popularity among suicidal Trinidadians of East Indian descent.
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World Relays: We must catch Jamaicans, says Great Britain coach ...  May 27, 2014 ... Despite winning bronze in the Bahamas, Reider remains unhappy that team ... British Athletics relay coach Rana Reider insists he will not be ... Blake, triumphed in 37.77 sec with Trinidad and Tobago 0.27 sec behind in second place. ... Ben Rumsby: Sport Inside to air 'Doping Top Secret: Russia's Red...
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Quia - United States and World Geography Challenge II  Cuba, Many people have migrated across the Straits of Florida to reach the ... Jamaica, Located directly south of Cuba, capital city of Kingston, this island ... Haiti, In which country on the island of Hispaniola is voodoo widely practiced - Haiti or Trinidad? ... Island group off the northwest coast of Africa that belongs to Spain.
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Sports Through the Nineteenth Century - U.S. History in Context - Gale  Eastern woodland tribes, for example, played a game colonists called stickball .... fishing and fowling, sports of the privileged back home, could be enjoyed by all. ... For the gentry on both sides of the Atlantic, to celebrate leisure, especially to do ..... York Knickerbocker Baseball Club became America's first organized team.
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Billiards - Wikipedia  Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, .... A recognizable form of billiards was played outdoors in the 1340s, and was ..... English billiards requires two cue balls and a red object ball .
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jeopardy/2212_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  IT'S JAMAICA | This "colorful" brand of beer is one of Jamaica's most popular .... the Greek for "a double assumption", you may find yourself "on the horns of" one...
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SPORTS & GAMES :: RACKET SPORTS images - Visual Dictionary ...  RACKET SPORTS. Popular all over the world, these sports have two to four opposing players with rackets; they rally a ball or shuttlecock on a defined playing...
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Jamaica Ska Music the predecessor of Rocksteady and Reggae ...  Ska Music rocked the world during the late 1950s despite the rise of Reggae it ... genre which emanated out of Jamaica during the late 1950s to early 1960s. Jamaica Ska is precursor to Rocksteady another popular Jamaican music genre. ... Then there were nursery rhymes types of lyrics with a touch of Jamaican dialect.
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hurlings - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  outdoor ball and stick game similar to field hockey (see hockey, field). The national pastime of Ireland, it was played for many centuries before the ... (25 of 210 words) ... Audio 1: North American English pronunciation of "hurling". Play Once.
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Get Involved: BADMINTON - BBC Sport - BBC.com  Jul 5, 2012 ... Badminton has its origins in ancient civilisations in Europe and Asia. ... body workout as the movement of the racquet exercises the upper torso. ... of the sport called Poona was played in the 19th century in India and ... In 1873 it was played at the Duke of Beaufort's country retreat, Badminton House, from...
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jeopardy/2212_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  IT'S JAMAICA | This "colorful" brand of beer is one of Jamaica's most popular exports | Red Stripe ... Kipling knew it's the agile carnivore seen here: | Mongoose.
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Softball - Wikipedia  Softball is a variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. It was invented in ... Women's fastpitch softball became a Summer Olympic sport in 1996, but it (and ... Softball recreational leagues for children often use an 11 inch ball. .... The batter attempts to hit the pitched ball with a bat, a long, round, smooth...
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Jamaica: A century of sport (27 July 1999) | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo  Jul 27, 1999 ... 1901 - 1910: AUGUST 1905, Jamaica loses all four matches to Trinidad by ... Earlier in the decade, Foster had run 9.8 seconds for 100 yards at a time ... who makes 61 while O.C. Tommy Scott, more famous as a bowler, makes 47. ... West Indian bowler (he being a leg-spinner) to take 200 first-class wickets...
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Jai alai: The sport that almost caught on in the U.S. | MNN - Mother ...  May 27, 2015 ... The game is jai alai, a sport from Spain's Basque country that was first imported to the United States more than ... Twenty years later, the first professional venue opened in Florida, which would become jai alai's American heartland. ... At the height its popularity in the 1970s, some Florida venues would...
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Baseball - Wikipedia  Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take ... Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, ... Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional ... The practice, common to bat-and-ball games of the day, of "soaking" or...
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j: Jai Alai (HY ly) - Sports!  Aug 8, 2007 ... Today Jai alai is favorite sport not only in Spain and France , but also in Mexico and the Philippines. In United States, Jai alai first became popular in Florida and is now played in several states.Jai alai is often called the fastest...
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15 Top Jamaican Cricketers | diGJamaica Blog  Jul 10, 2015 ... Although the West Indies team has fallen from grace over the last ... Jamaican cricketers have broken several barriers in the sport and are ... During his 18 year career, he played 55 matches for Jamaica .... bowler was the first West Indian to take 100 wickets in Test cricket. ... Get Away For Valentine's Day.
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Basque pelota - Wikipedia  Basque pelota is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis ... Operated as a gaming enterprise called Jai Alai, it is seen in parts of the U.S. such as ..... It uses a special glove that extends into a long pointed curved basket (hence the...