Cover 1
Frontmatter 2
Contents 8
Foreword 10
Acknowledgments 18
Introduction: A Baseball Diamond at Madison Square 22
1. Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. and Nineteenth-Century New York 38
2. The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York 47
3. The Rush for Gold 58
4. The Allure of Paradise 79
5. An American in Kamehameha￢ﾀﾙs Kingdom 90
6. America￢ﾀﾙs National Pastime in Hawaii 108
7. Cartwright and the Monarchy in the 1860s and 1870s 138
8. Annexation and the Hawaiian League 158
9. Spalding Comes to Hawaii 181
10. The Death of Cartwright, a King, and a Kingdom 189
11. ￢ﾀﾜDear Old Knickerbockers￢ﾀﾝ 198
12. ￢ﾀﾜBaseball on Murray Hill￢ﾀﾝ 216
13. ￢ﾀﾜOn Mountain and Prairie￢ﾀﾝ 234
14. ￢ﾀﾜOn the Sunny Plains of Hawaii nei￢ﾀﾝ 248
15. Baseball and the ￢ﾀﾜFamily Lare￢ﾀﾝ 264
Conclusion: Alexander Cartwright, Father of Modern Baseball* 280
Notes 288
Bibliography 306
Index 312
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press,Published:2009,ISBN:9780803224605,Language:English,OCLC:440817215
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, and especially with his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938, Cartwright has been celebrated as the founder of our national pastime, much like Abner Doubleday. As with Doubleday, Cartwright’s claim to fame has caused 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.€Through journal entries, letters, and newspaper clippings, 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—and as worthy of the history books—as any legend he inspired.

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Cover 1
Frontmatter 2
Contents 8
Foreword 10
Acknowledgments 18
Introduction: A Baseball Diamond at Madison Square 22
1. Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. and Nineteenth-Century New York 38
2. The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York 47
3. The Rush for Gold 58
4. The Allure of Paradise 79
5. An American in Kamehameha¬タルs Kingdom 90
6. America¬タルs National Pastime in Hawaii 108
7. Cartwright and the Monarchy in the 1860s and 1870s 138
8. Annexation and the Hawaiian League 158
9. Spalding Comes to Hawaii 181
10. The Death of Cartwright, a King, and a Kingdom 189
11. ¬タワDear Old Knickerbockers¬タン 198
12. ¬タワBaseball on Murray Hill¬タン 216
13. ¬タワOn Mountain and Prairie¬タン 234
14. ¬タワOn the Sunny Plains of Hawaii nei¬タン 248
15. Baseball and the ¬タワFamily Lare¬タン 264
Conclusion: Alexander Cartwright, Father of Modern Baseball* 280
Notes 288
Bibliography 306
Index 312
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press,Published:2009,ISBN:9780803224605,Language:English,OCLC:440817215
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, and especially with his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938, Cartwright has been celebrated as the founder of our national pastime, much like Abner Doubleday. As with Doubleday, Cartwright’s claim to fame has caused 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.€Through journal entries, letters, and newspaper clippings, 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—and as worthy of the history books—as any legend he inspired.

2022-03-08