Baseball Birthdays: April seventeenth

Alexander Cartwright wrote the early rules of play.
But credit, as inventor, went to Abner Doubleday.

"Cap" Anson may have been the first superstar of the game.
But gambling and his racist bent have long since soiled his name.

Solly Hemus was a battler. He could give and take it.
Not too wise, he told Bob Gibson he would never make it.

Marquis Grissom hit in fifteen straight world series games.
Yet, in lists of his time’s stars, he’s not amongst the names.

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