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The First Base Ball Reporters - Cauldwell, Bray, Chadwick, Kelly
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| Text | Henry Chadwick may be the Father of Baseball and a HOF member, but it is William Cauldwell in 1853 who is usually credited as the first baseball scribe. John Thorn sees the primacy claims this way: As for Chadwick, "He was not baseball's first reporter — that distinction goes to the little known William H. Bray, like Chadwick an Englishman who covered baseball and cricket for the Clipper from early 1854 to May 1858 (Chadwick succeeded him on both beats and never threw him a nod afterward). Isolated game accounts had been penned in 1853 by William Cauldwell of the Mercury and Frank Queen of the Clipper, who with William Trotter Porter of Spirit of the Times may be said to have been baseball's pioneer promoter. Credit for the shorthand scoring system belongs not to Chadwick but to Michael J. Kelly of the Herald. The box score — beyond the recording of outs and runs—may be Kelly's invention as well, but cricket had supplied the model." |
| Sources | John Thorn, "Pots and Pans and Bats and Balls," posted January 23, 2008 at http://thornpricks.blogspot.com/2008/01/pots-pans-and-bats-balls.html See also Turkin and Thompson, The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball (Doubleday, 1979), page 585. |
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1853.10 The First Base Ball Reporters - Cauldwell, Bray, Chadwick, Kelly"
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