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Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story
By Martin, Brian
- ISBN
- 9780786471997
- Publisher
- McFarland
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Reviewed on February 15, 2013 | Arts and Humanities
Grand theft, baseball? The legend of America's favorite pastime as having been invented in Cooperstown, NY, by Abner Doubleday, thus making it a wholly American game and not of English derivation, is possibly a little too convenient and good to be true. How did that myth come about? Brian Martin suggests a good old all-American conspiracy theory involving a star player turned sporti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
