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During the halcyon days of hardball, to everyone and anyone serious about playing in North America, the Mecca of the sport was on the east coast. The epicenter of the game was in Philadelphia; more specifically the Main Line of Philadelphia - an informally delineated historical and social region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lying along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's once prestigious Main Line, it runs northwest from Center City Philadelphia parallel to Lancaster Avenue (U.S. Route 30).
The Cynwyd Club, Germantown Cricket Club, and the Philadelphia Cricket Club, were a few of the storied clubs on the Main Line. But in most player's minds, and certainly in mine, the club that stood above them all was the Merion Cricket Club.
It was at a point in time when I wanted to spread my squash wings a bit - playing in the Bay Area and on the Pacific Coast had taken me only so far, and I knew that that there was a bigger world of squash beckoning.
I resolved to make a pilgrimage to not just play but to compete on the east coast - the Main Line in Pennsylvania in particular.
Was I really playing squash at a competitive level? There was only one way to find out. And that was to play with "the Big Boys" on the east coast.
The William White, Brendan McRory, and James Tully
Cowles Jacobs Barnaby were two Invitationals that I had my eyes on.
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