Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery

Name: Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery
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ISBN: 9780738534787

ISBN-10: 0738534781

ISBN-13: 9780738534787

Edition: 2003

Authors: Peter J. Nash

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Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and soon became one of America's foremost tourist attractions. It is the resting place for many notables, including Tiffany, Steinway, and Currier and Ives, but the cemetery also has a hidden baseball history. Green-Wood is home to almost two hundred baseball pioneers: members of the Knickerbocker, Atlantic, and Excelsior Clubs of the nineteenth century; Brooklyn's beloved Charles Ebbets; stadium owners; ball makers; and "the Father of Baseball," Henry Chadwick. The first baseball monument appeared at Green-Wood in 1862 to honor the game's first martyr and star, James Creighton Jr., initiating baseball's tradition of honoring its own with stone or…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication date: 12/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.044
Language: English