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BOOKS: Two new biographies of Alexander Cartwright
Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Baseball by Jay Martin
Columbia University Press ()
$, cloth. pages. 20 illustrations.Alexander Cartwright: The Life Behind the Baseball Legend by Monica Nucciarone
University of Nebraska Press ()
$, cloth. pages. 27 photos, 1 map.
Alick, we hardly knew ye. For many years, the only full-length biography of Alexander Cartwright was The Man Who Invented Baseball, written by Harold Peterson and published in In , two new portraits of Cartwright have appeared: Live All You Can: Alexander Joy Cartwright and the Invention of Baseball by Jay Martin and Alexander Cartwright: The Life Behind the Baseball Legend, by Monica Nucciarone.
Each biography contains vast amounts of material having nothing to do with baseball, as Cartwright’s involvement with the game consumed only a brief period of his life. Nucciarone’s narrative covers the baseball portion of her subject’s life in pages 12–22, and Martin devotes only slightly more space to baseball. Aside from that commonality, however, the books have distinctly different structures. Nucciarone’s is divided into two parts. The first is the story of Cartwright’s life; the second, a critical examinatio
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Joseph Stanton
Professor Emeritus
Degree
PhD New York University
Areas of Interest
Art History
Literary History
Sports History
Children’s Literature
Film Studies
Popular Culture
Poetry
Biography
Joseph Stanton is an art historian, a literary historian, a sports historian, and a poet. His work often centers on points where the visual and the literary intersect. He has written about such artists and writers as Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Maurice Sendak, Chris Van Allsburg, Margaret Wise Brown, Edward Gorey, and Richard Howard. In addition to conventional art historical and literary historical research his fields of study include ekphrastic poetry, narrative dimensions of the visual arts, book illustration, children’s picture books, film, and artist-writer collaborations. He also writes on sports history and culture with an emphasis on baseball. His Ph.D. is from New York University. He is extensively published as a poet. Many of his poems reflect his interests in such things as art, wildlife, landscapes, sports, movies, fairy tales, and Noh plays. He has collaborated on many occasions with artists, musicians, and other writers. His awards include the Loretta Petrie Award, the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award, the Cades A