Henry Chadwick
Henry Chadwick
Henry Chadwickwas an English-born American sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian, often called the "father of baseball" for his early reporting on and contributions to the development of the game. He edited the first baseball guide that was sold to the public. He is credited with creating box scores, as well as creating the abbreviation "K" that designates a strikeout. He is said to have created the statistics of batting average and earned run average. He was posthumously inducted into the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 October 1824
It was built when public architecture mattered, ... Now, it would be called wasteful spending.
The game was being sharply played on both sides, and I watched it with deeper interest than any previous ball match between clubs I had seen.
The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.
Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.
It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.
Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.