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George Wright was raised as a cricket "club pro", assisting their father Samuel Wright as Harry had done. Before George's birth, Samuel Wright's St George's Cricket Club moved from Manhattan across the Hudson River to Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, where many New York and New Jersey baseball clubs played in the 1850s. Both boys learned baseball, too, but George
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George Wright was raised as a cricket "club pro", assisting their father Samuel Wright as Harry had done. Before George's birth, Samuel Wright's St George's Cricket Club moved from Manhattan across the Hudson River to Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, where many New York and New Jersey baseball clubs played in the 1850s. Both boys learned baseball, too, but George grew up with the "national game" and was barely in his teens when the American Civil War curtailed its boom; Harry was already 22 when the baseball fraternity convened for the first time, and 30 when the war ended. George's younger brother Sam Wright also played baseball professionally, with brief appearances in the major leagues.
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Record of the Boston Base Ball Club since its organization, with a sketch of all its players, for 1871, '72,
/ Record of the Boston Base Ball Club since its organization, with a sketch of all its players, for 1871, '72, '73 and '74, and other items of interest by George Wright, B.B.B.C.
George Wright's Book for 1875 containing record of the Boston Base Ball Club, with scores of base ball and cricket
/ George Wright's Book for 1875 containing record of the Boston Base Ball Club, with scores of base ball and cricket trip to England, and other items of interest, also, base ball attitudes, in twelve different styles, with an explanation of each, Hyde Park, Mass., printed at the Norfolk County Gazette Office, 1875