Alexander Cartwright
Hall of fame inductee
1820 – 1892
Who was Alexander Cartwright?
Alexander Joy Cartwright, Jr. is one of several people sometimes referred to as a "father of baseball". Cartwright is thought to be the first person to draw a diagram of a diamond shaped baseball field, and the rules of the modern game are based on the Knickerbocker Rules developed by Cartwright and a committee from his club, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club. With the myth of Abner Doubleday inventing baseball debunked, Cartwright was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as an executive 46 years after his death. Cartwright was officially declared the inventor of the modern game of baseball by the 83rd United States Congress on June 3, 1953.
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- Born
- Apr 17, 1820
New York City - Also known as
- 亞歷山大·卡特來特
- Картрайт, Александр
- Lived in
- Manhattan
- Died
- Jul 12, 1892
Honolulu
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on July 23, 2013
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