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Book Remembers Legends Buried At Brooklyn Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and soon became one of America’s foremost tourist attractions. In addition, to some notables interred there, such as Tiffany, Steinway and Currier and Ives, it also has a hidden baseball history.

The well-known Brooklyn cemetery is the resting place for nearly two hundred baseball pioneers: members of the Knickerbocker, Atlantic, and Excelsior Clubs of the 19th century; Brooklyn’s beloved Charles Ebbets; stadium owners; ball makers; and "the Father of Baseball," Henry Chadwick.

Through painstaking research and a compelling array of rare photographs, Baseball Legends of Brooklyn’s Green- Wood Cemetery tells the story of the game’s birth in Brooklyn, New York City and Hoboken in New Jersey.

The book includes references to such early baseball people as:

• "Fathers of Baseball," such as Henry Chadwick, Charles Ebbets, Gen. Abner Doubleday, Alexander Cart-wright, and Duncan Curry.

• Brooklyn’s own Asa Brainard, who became a pitching ace with the Cincinnati Red Stocking Club.

• Thomas Dakin, a premier all-around player in Brooklyn years before Jim Creighton entered the fray.

• The Excelsior Club of South Brooklyn, the city’s first baseball club.

• The Mighty Atlantics, a baseball club that assumed a top position as the country emerged from the Civil War.

Author Peter J. Nash is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the curator of a nineteen century baseball collection. He resides in Cooperstown, New York.