Alexander Joy Cartwright /

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About : The overweight American admiral, who, unsurprisingly, swears like a sailor. His name is taken from one of the founders of the Knickerbocker Club, the first organized baseball league. Cartwright is known as the “Father of Baseball”. The naval uniforms worn by the Americans are wrong for the time period of Champloo (when “America” as a political entity did not even exist) but correct for the period of Commodore Matthew Perry, who forced the shogunate to repeal the Dutch trade monopoly. When his sh...