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|Text=<p> | |Text=<p>[After he moved to Hawaii] "Cartwright never forgot baseball . . . As early as 1852 [he] measured out by foot the dimensions of Hawaii's first baseball field. . . . [He] organized teams and taught the game all over the island."</p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Harold Peterson, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Man Who Invented Baseball</span> (Scribner's, 1969), page 172.</p> | |Sources=<p>Harold Peterson, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Man Who Invented Baseball</span> (Scribner's, 1969), page 172.</p> | ||
<p>This story is also carried in Frederick Ivor-Campbell, "Alexander Joy Cartwright, Jr. (Alick)", in Frederick Ivor-Campbell, et. al, eds., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball's First Stars</span> [SABR, Cleveland, 1996], page 24, and in Jay Martin, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball</span> (Columbia U Press, 2009), pp. 62-63. None of these authors provides a source, but Peterson seems to imply that Cartwright's son may have written of the incident in 1909.</p> | <p>This story is also carried in Frederick Ivor-Campbell, "Alexander Joy Cartwright, Jr. (Alick)", in Frederick Ivor-Campbell, et. al, eds., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball's First Stars</span> [SABR, Cleveland, 1996], page 24, and in Jay Martin, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball</span> (Columbia U Press, 2009), pp. 62-63. None of these authors provides a source, but Peterson seems to imply that Cartwright's son may have written of the incident in 1909.</p> | ||
|Warning=<p>This story has been seriously questioned by recent scholarship, which has found nothing in Cartwright's own papers, or his family's, that confirm it. The | |Warning=<p>This story has been seriously questioned by recent scholarship, which has found nothing in Cartwright's own papers, or his family's, that confirm it. The two claims -- that Cartwright laid out a ballfield and that he taught base ball widely -- are thus not found in Monica Nucciarone's thorough <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Alexander Cartwright: The Life Behind the Baseball Legend</span> (U of Nebraska Press, 2009).</p> | ||
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Text | [After he moved to Hawaii] "Cartwright never forgot baseball . . . As early as 1852 [he] measured out by foot the dimensions of Hawaii's first baseball field. . . . [He] organized teams and taught the game all over the island." |
Sources | Harold Peterson, The Man Who Invented Baseball (Scribner's, 1969), page 172. This story is also carried in Frederick Ivor-Campbell, "Alexander Joy Cartwright, Jr. (Alick)", in Frederick Ivor-Campbell, et. al, eds., Baseball's First Stars [SABR, Cleveland, 1996], page 24, and in Jay Martin, Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball (Columbia U Press, 2009), pp. 62-63. None of these authors provides a source, but Peterson seems to imply that Cartwright's son may have written of the incident in 1909. |
Warning | This story has been seriously questioned by recent scholarship, which has found nothing in Cartwright's own papers, or his family's, that confirm it. The two claims -- that Cartwright laid out a ballfield and that he taught base ball widely -- are thus not found in Monica Nucciarone's thorough Alexander Cartwright: The Life Behind the Baseball Legend (U of Nebraska Press, 2009). |
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