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Monument to Henry Chadwick (1824-1908), (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown, sculptor. Title:  Monument to Henry Chadwick (1824-1908), (sculpture). Medium:  Stone monument with bronze relief plaques and a granite sphere. Description:  A central stone pedestal adorned on the sides with bronze reliefs depicting a catcher's mask, a baseball, glove, and two crossed baseball bats. On the front of the central pedestal is an inscription plaque in the shape of a baseball diamond, a term Chadwick coined to describe the baseball playing field. Atop the monument is a large granite sphere carved to resemble a baseball. At each corner of the cemetery lot are stones carved to resemble baseball bases. Subject:  Homage -- Chadwick, Henry Occupation -- Writer -- Journalist Occupation -- Sport -- Baseball Object Type:  Sculpture Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Brooklyn Gravestone Relief Owner:  Green-Wood Cemetery, 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11232 Remarks:  British-born journalist Chadwick wrote articles about baseball for the New York Clipper and the Brooklyn Eagle, and in the process developed the newspaper box score to compare performances of each baseball player. The terms and phrases he used in his articles are today part of the language of baseball --assist, base hit, base on balls, cut off, chin music, fungo, white wash, double play, error, goose egg, left on base, and single. Theodore Roosevelt called him the "Father of Baseball." References:  Richmond, Jeffrey I., "Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure," Brooklyn, NY: Green-Wood Cemetery, 2008, pg. 182-183. Illustration:  Richmond, Jeffrey I., "Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure," Brooklyn, NY: Green-Wood Cemetery, 2008, pg. 183. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 68320056   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 68320056 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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