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Alexander Cartwright

Alexander Cartwright

Inventor
Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. was a founding member of the New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club in the 1840s. Although he was an inductee of the Baseball Hall of Fame and he was sometimes referred to as a "father of baseball", the importance of... Wikipedia
Born: April 17, 1820, New York, NY
Died: July 12, 1892 (age 72 years), Honolulu, HI
Hall of fame induction: 1938
Grandparent: Thomas Burlock
Great-grandparents: Job Burlock and Hester Deforest