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Alexander Cartwright - The Life behind the Baseball Legend (Paperback)
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Alexander Cartwright - The Life behind the Baseball Legend (Paperback)
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Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. (1820-92) was present during the
organization of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York in the
mid-1800s. That much is certain. Since that time, Cartwright has
been celebrated as the founder of our national pastime, much like
Abner Doubleday. As with Doubleday, however, Cartwright's claim to
fame has also spawned all sorts of conjecture and controversy. His
complex life, not just the mythography surrounding him, comes
clearly into focus in Monica Nucciarone's biography of the
incomparable Cartwright.
Nucciarone traces Cartwright's path from Elysian Fields in New
Jersey to a gold-rush adventure in California, and on to Honolulu,
where he became involved in the movement to annex Hawaii to the
United States. Beginning with the widely held notion that
Cartwright created the game of baseball as we know it today, then
spread it across North America to Hawaii like a Johnny Appleseed,
Nucciarone's book separates fact from speculation. Although the
picture that emerges may not be the Alexander Cartwright of legend,
it shows us a man as colorful, complicated, and immense in
character as any legend he inspired.
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