Baseball's creation myth
Subtitle: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown story
By: Brian Martin
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780786471997
Subjects: Baseball players; Baseball; History
Description: "The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Civil War hero Abner Doubleday seemed to prove America's national pastime was an American game, not derived from the English children's game of rounders as had been believed. This book provides a surprising answer about the origins of America's most durable myth"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: A simple letter; title: A son of Cooperstown; title: A letter from Denver; title: The doctor moves on; title: Eleven years in Denver; title: The doctor strikes out; title: Filling a need; title: The myth exposed, promoted, adopted; title: An unhappy ending; title: Cooperstown prevails; title: Remembering the storytellers; title: Testing a tale; title: Grand theft, baseball?