The Ball That Changed The World: The Story of Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., True Father of Baseball Paperback - 2012

"The Ball That Changed The World" is written for a younger audience. Each two-page chapter concludes with questions that can be used by teachers or home-schooling parents to emphasize academic topics from English to geology, as well as personal development and ethics. Mr. Chapman is also the author of three published non-fiction books, "Mauna Ala: Hawaii's Royal Mausoleum,", "You Know You're In Hawaii When ..." and "Boys of Winter: the Story of the Hawaii Winter Baseball League." Between 2001 and 2005, he wrote six novels that were published in daily serialized form by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin under the general heading My Kind of Town. Mr. Chapman is editor-in-chief of a Honolulu publishing group that includes Hawaii's best-read newspaper, a glossy magazine division and a weekly paper with readership of more than half a million. In 2005, Mr. Chapman was one of six American journalists chosen for the first U.S.-Korea Journalists Exchange Fellowship, sponsored by the East-West Center and the Korea Press Foundation. Other U.S. journalists represented Newsday, National Public Radio in Washington D.C., Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle and a D.C. TV station. In Seoul he attened a baseball game between the Doosan Bears and Samsung Lions, one of the best baseball experiences of his lie. As a free-lance writer, Mr. Chapman has contributed to more than 30 publications. He previously worked as a daily columnist for the Honolulu Advertiser for 13 years, and before that as sports writer/columnist at the San Jose Mercury News and sports editor at the Pendleton East-Oregonian. Before studying journalism as a graduate student at the University of Oregon, he was a theology major as an undergrad and later spent one year in a seminary in St. Louis. His baseball background includes serving as a batboy for a minor league team (Salem Dodgers), lettering in high school and college, covering professional baseball for the San Jose Mercury News, and coaching youth leagues for eight years, including three state tournament teams. A resident of Hawaii since 1979, he is a native of Salem, Oregon.