Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Modern Baseball

Jay Martin

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July, 2009
Cloth, 168 pages, 20 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-14794-1
$22.95 / £15.95

The Birth of the Father

The Dream

Cartwright, Dreaming Again

Across the Plains

Visions and Revisions

Paradise Bound

Paradise Found

The Last Gasp of the Great Sailing Ships

Missionary Baseball

Starting All Over Again: It’s Gonna Be Rough—but We’re Gonna Make It

The New Fire Chief

Freemasonry Comes to Hawaii

A Gift from the Sea—and a Loss

Back to Baseball

DeWitt and His Brothers

Cartwright & Co., Ltd.

Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., American

The Social Whirl

Advisor to the Queen

Deaths and New Life

King Sugar

Baseball on the Plantations

Spalding’s World Tour—First Stop, Hawaii

The Final Dissolving

Cartwright’s Second Life: Myth into History

Appendix 1: Chronology of the Life of Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr.

Appendix 2: Did Cartwright “Really Invent” Baseball? Or, How Did the Game Evolve Before He Arrived? A Short Survey of Two Vexed Questions

Notes and References

Acknowledgments

Index

Related Subjects

• American History

About the Author

Jay Martin is the Edward S. Gould Professor of Humanities, professor of government, and founder of the Questions of Civilization Program at Claremont McKenna College. He has written and edited twenty-one books, including biographies of Nathanael West, Henry Miller, John Dewey, and Conrad Aiken, along with a standard history of American literature from 1865 to 1914. His most recent book is the short story collection Baseball Magic.

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