Make Cricket more popular in the USA

How would you ensure that Cricket had more of a following in America . It seems there was a following until the latter part of the 1800 's but it's growth was strangled by the emergence of baseball.
 
Harry Turtledove suggests in TL-191 that baseball was merely a New England thing until the American Civil War, and that the much-reduced space for soldiers to play sports meant that they adopted baseball, which can be played in a much smaller space. I'm not sure he's right about baseball being solely a New England thing, but he's right about the American Civil War causing a decline in cricket.
 
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