Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story by Brian Martin

Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story

Brian Martin

228 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history sports emotional informative medium-paced
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The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.S. national pastime was an American game, not derived from the English children's game of rounders as had been believed. The ...

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