Alexander Cartwright
Alexander AlickJoy Cartwright, Jr. is referred to as a father of baseball, although this is disputed. The rules of the modern game were thought to be based on the Knickerbocker Rules developed by Cartwright and a committee from his club, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, in 1845, although this is also disputed. With the myth of Abner Doubleday inventing baseball debunked, Cartwright was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a pioneering contributor 46 years after his death. Although it has been stated in secondary sources that Cartwright was officially declared the inventor of the modern game of baseball by the 83rd United States Congress on June 3, 1953, a search of the Congressional Record, House Journal, and Senate Journal from June 3, 1953 shows no mention of Cartwright.
Cartwright was born in 1820 to Alexander Carwright, Sr. , a merchant sea captain, and Esther Rebecca Burlock Cartwright . Alexander Jr. had six siblings. He first worked at the age ofin 1836 as a clerk for a Wall Street broker, later doing clerical work at the Union Bank of New York. After hours, he played batandball games in the streets of Manhattan with volunteer firefighters. Cartwright himself was a volunteer, first with Oceana Hose Company No. 36, and then Knickerbocker Engine Company No. 12. Cartwrights ancestor Edward Cartwright immigrated from Devonshire, England to New England around 1661. Cartwright married Eliza Van Wie, from Albany, on June 2, 1842.
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