Henry Chadwick Quotes


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.


Citations

Chadwick, Henry. Beadle's Dime Base-Ball Player. Beadle and Company, 1860, p. 5.

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Henry Chadwick
Henry Chadwick
  • Born: October 5, 1824
  • Died: April 20, 1908
  • Nationality: English, American
  • Profession: Sportswriter

Henry Chadwick was an English-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 (ERA). He was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938.