Grave of the Father of Baseball
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
You'd expect to find the Father of The Hula buried in Hawaii. But the Father of Baseball? Hawaii wasn't even part of the United States when Alexander Cartwright died there in 1892.
Nevertheless, the U.S. Congress officially decreed in 1953 that Cartwright was the Father of Baseball, to the dismay of those who believed that others deserved the credit. Cartwright supposedly did his fathering in 1846, in New York City. Three years later he headed west to California, and then kept going until he reached Hawaii, where he spent the rest of his life reportedly fathering baseball to the natives.
Cartwright's large tombstone mentions nothing about baseball, and would be hard to distinguish from the others in the cemetery were it not for the offerings of baseballs that are frequently left at its base.