Henry Chadwick MLB Hall of Fame 1938

Henry Chadwick was inducted into the third MLB Hall of Fame class of 1938 along with Pete Alexander and Alexander Cartwright. Chadwick was a sports writer for numerous New York newspapers and is credited with promoting and raising public awareness about baseball. He was another given the nickname "father of baseball".

Chadwick had moved to Brooklyn as a youth with his family from England. Cricket was his game and he started out covering that for the papers when he came across baseball. He started covering baseball and kept track of team records and reported on player's achievements. He is given credit for developing the box score which he adapted from the cricket scorecard. 

In 1867 he became the official scorer of the National Baseball Club of Washington DC and joined them on their first national tour. He later organized a similar tour to England in 1874 which consisted of both baseball and cricket games.

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