A preview of �Alexander Cartwright: The Life behind the Baseball Legend,� a new book by Monica Nucciarone, will be presented at the Hawaii State Library on Friday at 11:45 a.m. in the First Floor Reading Room. Admission is free.

Nucciarone will introduce and read selected passages from her biography of Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., a former Hawai�i resident who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938 and officially recognized by Congress on June 3, 1953 as the inventor of baseball.
The �Father of Modern Baseball� laid out Hawaii�s first baseball diamond, now called Cartwright Field in Makiki.
The author�s book presentation will focus on the 45 years that Cartwright resided in Hawai�i as a businessman, civic leader, and friend and advisor to royalty. Cartwright helped to establish The Queen�s Medical Center, the Pacific Club, and the Hawaii Library System, now known as the Hawaii State Public Library System.
For information, call the Hawaii State Library�s Hawaii & Pacific Section at 586-3535.