Read about the man who invented the modern-day sport of baseball, Alexander Joy Cartwright. This article talks about the history and development of the sport and gives example the rules in other "versions" of baseball.

This site from Mr. Baseball has information about the man who created the modern rules of baseball, Alexander Joy Cartwright.

Profile of Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy, popularly known as Connie Mack, a baseball player in the 1880s who went on to own and manage the Philadelphia Athletics team for fifty years.

Read about the 1945 co-laureate of the Nobel Prize in Medicine -- Ernst Boris Chain. This Nobel article overviews Chain's education and personal life, but focuses mainly on his his contributions to the study of bacteriology and penicillin.

Download and read Ernst Boris Chain's Nobel Lecture, "The chemical structure of the penicillin." Originally given March 20, 1946, this lecture is downloadable in PDF format. Site by Nobel Foundation.

Ernst Chain PBS entry details the professional and personal life of this Nobel Prize winning chemist. Page profiles his early life in Germany and family fortune and potential career as a pianist, to his breakthrough research in...

This site from the encyclopedia Wikipedia describes the military career of Abner Doubleday and disputes the idea that he is the inventor of baseball. Links are provided for additional information on related subjects.