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Alexander Cartwright

Baseball club founding member (1820–1892)

For the academic, see Alexander Cartwright (academic).

Baseball player

Alexander Cartwright
Cartwright in 1855
Born: Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. (1820 -04-17)April 17, 1820 New York City, U.S.
Died: July 12, 1892(1892-07-12) (aged 72) Honolulu, O'ahu, Kingdom of Hawai'i
Known for invention of the modern game of baseball (disputed) Signature:
Induction	1938
Election method	Centennial Commission

Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. (April 17, 1820 – July 12, 1892) 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 his role in the development of the game has been disputed.

The rules of the modern game were long considered to have been based on the Knickerbocker Rules developed in 1845 by Cartwright and a committee from the Knickerbockers. However, later research called this scenario into question.^[1&

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Alexander Cartwright

Other than Abner Doubleday, perhaps no person associated with the beginnings of baseball is more celebrated yet disputed than Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. No evidence exists for Abner Doubleday’s having anything to do with baseball. There is, on the other hand, sufficient evidence to connect Cartwright with baseball. However, in light of interviews with other former New York Knickerbockers — Daniel Adams, Duncan Curry, and William Wheaton — uncovered in recent years, Cartwright’s alleged pivotal role has been questioned.

Randall Brown speaks about these men and the controversy over who has true claim to significant rule changes. For example, William Wheaton in an interview in 1887 laid claim to at least two particular rule revisions formerly attributed to Cartwright: the diamond configuration of the playing field and abolishing the rule of throwing the ball at the runner, ordering instead that it should be thrown to the baseman instead to achieve an out.

Joel Zoss and John Bowman address “The Cartwright Myth,” comparing various asp

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Whether you’re eating a hot dog, singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” or stepping up to the plate yourself. The next time you’re out at the ballpark enjoying America’s favorite pastime, you can thank Alexander Cartwright. He is the man widely regarded as being most responsible for formulating the modern rules of baseball.

Cartwright was born Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. on April 17, 1820 in New York City. While working as a bank clerk and volunteer firefighter in New York, Cartwright started playing a popular game known as “town ball” or “base ball.” At the time, it was simply a bat and ball played by locals with an informal set of rules that got passed along by word of mouth.

Cartwright’s intense passion for the game led him to become a founding member of the Knickerbocker Baseball Club in 1845. Under his direction, the club drafted and adopted the first formalized set of rules for the game. These rules became the foundation for the modern game of baseball. Among the rules established by Cartwright were the way teams record an out, the diamond shaped layout of the field, and