Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story
by:
Brian Martin (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00D4BY36E
Publish date: May 29th 2013
Publisher: McFarland
Pages no: 228
Edition language: English
A well-researched and very interesting presentation on the origins of baseball in this country, and how our country in the early 20th century was ready and willing to believe a strongly patriotic, and patently false, version of this creation of our National Pasttime. Abner Graves, an avid businessma...
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book for review from LibraryThing. The mythologized and debunked tale of General Abner Doubleday’s invention of baseball in Cooperstown, New York is the focus of Baseball’s Creation Myth by Brian Martin. The story behind the Doubleday-Cooperstown tale brings i...
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