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Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story - Brian Martin
Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781299627444 (1299627447)
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Pages no: 227
Edition language: English
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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...
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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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Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story - Brian Martin
Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story - Brian Martin
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