biography
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| lived:
| (1824–1908)
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| biography:
| Sportswriter and baseball executive, born in Exeter, Devon, SW England, UK. After emigrating to the USA at an early age, he became a sportswriter for the New York Times (1856) and wrote some of the earliest articles about baseball, which included his modern version of a baseball box score. For the next fifty years, he wrote prolifically about the game, served on rules committees, compiled official statistics, and published books on baseball. Known as ‘The Father of Baseball’, he was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1938. |
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