Modern baseball's founder was our first fire chief

   Our Condo's security head,  who is interested in old graveyards, told us he saw a headstone in Oahu Cemetery with baseballs at its base and found out it belonged to Alexander Cartwright, founder of modern baseball.

  Now, I'm not a sportsperson, so I'm probably one of the few in Hawaii who didn't know he was buried here so we went to see it.

Oahu Cemetery is the first public cemetery in Honolulu, founded in 1844.  The first public crematorium in the islands was opened there in 1906.

It has old headstones, many dating  from the 1800's.

There it was. The grave of  Alexander Cartwright, who established 9 innings as a game and set bases 90 feet apart and 9 players as a team.
He brought baseball to California in 1849 and then to Hawaii, where he lived until he died in 1892.
He also served as Hawaii's first Fire Chief and was an advisor to Queen Emma.