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This is the earliest mention of adult participation in cricket and it was around the same time that the earliest known organised inter-parish or village match was played – at Chevening, Kent. In 1624, a participant referred to as Jasper Vinall died after he was by chance struck on the head during a match between two parish groups in Sussex. In the late 19th century, a former cricketer, English-born Henry Chadwick of Brooklyn, New York, was credited with devising the baseball box score for reporting game occasions. The statistical report is so central to the game's "historic essence" that Chadwick is typically referred to as "the Father of Baseball" because he facilitated the recognition of the sport in its early days. In England, numerous affiliation soccer golf equipment owe their origins to cricketers who sought to play football as a way of maintaining match through the winter months. Derby County was based as a department of the Derbyshire County Cricket C...