Baseball....the Queen of All Sports!
Talent, anxious moments, competition...add the statistics and the strategy, and you have the thinking person's sport.
Now, add history.
The famed Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, of which I am a member, is memorializing a true baseball original.
1. "James Creighton, Jr. (April 15, 1841 October 18, 1862) was an American baseball player during the game's amateur era, and is considered by historians to be its first superstar. He played for the Excelsior of Brooklyn from 1860 to 1862,,,," Jim Creighton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. "....Creighton, who revolutionized Americas national pastime.... invented the speedball grandfather of the fastball and in doing so, shifted the games focus away from fielding to the showdown between pitcher and batter,....
3. Before Creighton came along, the pitcher lobbed the ball for the batter to hit, he said. The batter could even specify where he wanted a pitch.
a. At the time, the sport of Cricket was the most popular sport in the United States
4. .... a delivery so quick that game organizers brought in the so-called father of baseball Henry Chadwick a fellow Brooklynite to determine whether Creightons form was legal, according to Richman.
5. In an era of amateurs, Creighton was one of the first players paid to play, which made him a de facto professional though the payments were made in secret,...
6. ... baseballs original martyr he ruptured his spleen hitting a home run in 1862 and died days later at the age of 21,...
7. A memorial to one of baseballs most important innovators has finally been restored to its former glory.
Green-Wood Cemetery unveiled the restored monument to Jim Creighton the seminal baseball player who pitched for the Brooklyn Excelsiors in the 1860s on April 15, Creightons 173rd birthday.
8. It may very well be the first baseball monument in America, said Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman. Its a precursor for the idea of Monument Park at Yankee Stadium.
9. The cemetery, which is the final resting place for early baseball greats including Chadwick and Charles Ebbets, footed the bill to restore the monument and replace the marble baseball had that long ago vanished from atop the obelisk.
10. ... an important gesture for a baseball great who has received less credit than he is due.
He is the most influential baseball player not in the hall of fame,"
Dusting off the plate: Baseball great?s restored burial monument unveiled ? Brooklyn Daily
BTW....in addition to paid tours of the huge, and beautiful cemetery, any may tour on their own free of charge....and discover a history not found in any books.
"A magnet for history buffs and bird watchers, Green-Wood is a Revolutionary War historic site (the Battle of Long Island was fought in 1776 across what is now its grounds), a designated site on the Civil War Discovery Trail and a registered member of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary System."
About / History | Green-Wood
Talent, anxious moments, competition...add the statistics and the strategy, and you have the thinking person's sport.
Now, add history.
The famed Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, of which I am a member, is memorializing a true baseball original.
1. "James Creighton, Jr. (April 15, 1841 October 18, 1862) was an American baseball player during the game's amateur era, and is considered by historians to be its first superstar. He played for the Excelsior of Brooklyn from 1860 to 1862,,,," Jim Creighton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. "....Creighton, who revolutionized Americas national pastime.... invented the speedball grandfather of the fastball and in doing so, shifted the games focus away from fielding to the showdown between pitcher and batter,....
3. Before Creighton came along, the pitcher lobbed the ball for the batter to hit, he said. The batter could even specify where he wanted a pitch.
a. At the time, the sport of Cricket was the most popular sport in the United States
4. .... a delivery so quick that game organizers brought in the so-called father of baseball Henry Chadwick a fellow Brooklynite to determine whether Creightons form was legal, according to Richman.
5. In an era of amateurs, Creighton was one of the first players paid to play, which made him a de facto professional though the payments were made in secret,...
6. ... baseballs original martyr he ruptured his spleen hitting a home run in 1862 and died days later at the age of 21,...
7. A memorial to one of baseballs most important innovators has finally been restored to its former glory.
Green-Wood Cemetery unveiled the restored monument to Jim Creighton the seminal baseball player who pitched for the Brooklyn Excelsiors in the 1860s on April 15, Creightons 173rd birthday.
8. It may very well be the first baseball monument in America, said Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman. Its a precursor for the idea of Monument Park at Yankee Stadium.
9. The cemetery, which is the final resting place for early baseball greats including Chadwick and Charles Ebbets, footed the bill to restore the monument and replace the marble baseball had that long ago vanished from atop the obelisk.
10. ... an important gesture for a baseball great who has received less credit than he is due.
He is the most influential baseball player not in the hall of fame,"
Dusting off the plate: Baseball great?s restored burial monument unveiled ? Brooklyn Daily
BTW....in addition to paid tours of the huge, and beautiful cemetery, any may tour on their own free of charge....and discover a history not found in any books.
"A magnet for history buffs and bird watchers, Green-Wood is a Revolutionary War historic site (the Battle of Long Island was fought in 1776 across what is now its grounds), a designated site on the Civil War Discovery Trail and a registered member of the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary System."
About / History | Green-Wood
