Safe at Home: Baseball pioneer gets long-overdue gravestone at Green-Wood
A baseball pioneer who has rested in an unmarked grave since he died in 1899 is finally getting the recognition he craved. Green-Wood Cemetery was set to unveil James Whyte Davis’ home-plate-shaped gravestone on Saturday.
Davis started playing baseball in the 1840s at the dawn of the game and was president of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York City, one of the earliest baseball teams, from 1858 to 1860.
According to the Society for American Baseball Research, he played a role in some of the most seminal moments in baseball history, serving as a delegate to the 1867 convention of the National Association of Amateur Base Ball Players.
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