Before the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England.

* August 8 – The first recorded town cricket match at Horsham in England is played.

The town of Raphoe and the nearby village of St. Johnston, both in The Laggan, are the traditional strongholds of cricket within the county.

Falmouth is also home to one of the county's biggest cricket clubs, where four teams represent the town in the Cornwall Cricket League, with the 1st team playing in the Cornwall Premier League.

There are numerous clubs and associations in the town, including sports clubs for association football, badminton, birdwatching, bowls, cricket, cruising, netball, road running, rugby football, swimming, tennis and yachting.

Major cricket clubs in the town include Falkland C. C.

The town also has its own cricket ground at the castle, often cited as being one of the country's most picturesque.

The town and surrounding boroughs boast a number of cricket clubs, with two teams taking the town's name.

The town is also home to many amateur football, rugby and cricket teams.

Hervines Park and Barn Meadow host some cricket in the summer, but the main cricket clubs in the town are Amersham Cricket Club who play in the grounds of Shardeloes and Amersham Hill Cricket Club.

The former Yorkshire and England cricket captain Brian Close lived in the town during his childhood and still lives there now.

The town is home to many major sports including cricket and football.

The town also has a cricket club ( whose team plays in the Bradford League ), along with a football club ( Morley Town ) and Rugby league club ( Morley Borough ).

The town was famous in the 18th and 19th centuries for its wool manufacture, and, from the 19th century, for cricket.

The largest of these is Wellington where many Shropshire County matches are also played but St Georges, Madeley and Lilleshall also run cricket clubs in or on the outskirts of the town.

The Dannevirke Sports Club is the major outlet for sport in the town with netball, cricket and soccer teams as well as a rugby team that competes in the Premier Manawatu Senior Competition.

who currently share a ground with Leighton TownAylesbury has a strong cricket club in the town, that was formed in 1837 with success in the 1950s and 1980s and is again emerging as a one of the strong clubs in mid to north bucks.

The main sports played in the town are cricket, with many teams playing in the Kent Cricket League, and football, with teams competing in a Saturday league and a Sunday league.

* Accrington FC, known as " Th ' Owd Reds ", is founded in 1878 by the town cricket club and plays at Thorneyholme Road, which remains the home of Accrington Cricket Club to the present.

* Steve James ( cricketer ), former England / Glamorgan batsman and now Sports journalist for the Telegraph was born in Lydney and played both cricket and rugby for the town.

Newport is home to a large extent of different sports clubs, playing at all different levels of professionalism and covering all different sports, with all the main sports in the UK catered for in and around the town, with football, cricket, bowls and archery located in the Granville avenue / Audley avenue area of the town, surrounding Audley villa which was once the club house of Newport horse racing course, floodlit tennis courts are located in the High street, rugby is at top of Forton road, swimming and fishing located by Victoria park and most else can be catered for at Lillishall hall which is a national sports centre

The town also has a rugby football club and an athletic Club for archery ( St Kingsmark Bowmen ), tennis, bowls, cricket and junior football.

A number of sports organisations operate in the town ; notably rugby and cricket as well as a thriving judo club.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

The club engages the services of a head tennis professional to run a coaching programme for the town and was crowned Tennis Wales ' Club of the Year in 2010.

Accrington is the smallest town in England and Wales with a Football League club.

However, this bizarre relocation plan never materialised and when the club finally did relocate in 2003, it was to the Buckinghamshire town of Milton Keynes.

Lineker began his career at his home town club Leicester City after leaving school.

When summer came, he decided to visit an outdoor nudist club, that of Fouracres near the town of Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, which he soon began to frequent.

The first polo club was established in the town of Silchar in Assam, India, in 1834. There is also a polo ground in chooto jalanga ( irongmara / dwarbond ).

* Tours FC – a soccer club based in the town

The Padthaway Football Club which commenced in 1967 is known as the Lions is the main club of the town, competing in the Kowree-Naracoorte-Tatiara Football League.

The club spent two years ground-sharing at Gillingham before returning to the town as tenants of the Withdean Athletics Stadium.

Many stars from hockey's previous generation, including Anders Hedberg, Thomas Gradin and Anders Kallur, were also either Örnsköldsvik natives ( Hedberg ) and / or played in the town for the Modo Hockey club.

The town hosts a football club named R. A. E. C.

The club was formed in 1968, with the town regaining a club with league status after 44 years when they were promoted as champions of the Football Conference on 15 April 2006.

At a meeting in the town library in October 1968 the revival was initiated by Stanley Wotherington, and in August 1970 the new club played at a new ground, the Crown Ground.

The original town club, Accrington, was amongst the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888, before resigning from the league after just five years.

The club intended to break the hold that the Tredegar Iron and Coal Company had on the town by becoming members of pivotal groups in the community.

It was unusual for a smaller town such as Burton to host two Football League clubs so it was hoped the merger would see an upturn in fortunes for the United club.

Senior football did return to the town when a new club called Burton All-Saints were formed.

The town has a football team in the South West Peninsula Premier League, Falmouth Town F. C., who play at Bickland Park in the south-west of the town, and also Falmouth RFC, a rugby union club who play at The Recreation Ground, a site at the top of The Moor.

The programme which drew the highest ratings of the series focused on Burnlee Working Men's Club, a club in the small West Yorkshire town of Holmfirth and Took saw Holmfirth's potential as the backdrop of a television show.

Guildford's model railway club, the Astolat Model Railway Circle, and a local pub, the Astolat, are just a couple of the modern day reminders of the legend to be found in the town.

The town is home to Palamós CF the local football club.

* Portlaoise RFC is the local rugby club, located just outside the town at Togher