`The Father of Baseball,` Henry Chadwick, whose retirement house in Noyac, not far west of Trout Pond, still stands, is to be among those inducted into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame on Oct. 1. Originally, this year`s class, which includes Mark Herrmann, a retired Newsday sportswriter who began his career at The Southampton Press in the early 1980s, was to have been inducted on May 26, at Watermill Caterers in Smithtown, but the coronavirus pandemic intervened. Born in England in 1824, Chadwick came as a teenager with his family to Brooklyn, and apparently saw his first baseball game in 1856 on Hoboken`s Elysian Fields while writing about a cricket game...
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