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Now available in paperback, the āfresh and fascinatingā (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), āsplendid and brilliantā (Philadelphia Daily News) history of the early game by the Official Historian of Major League Baseball.
Who really invented baseball? Forget Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown and Alexander Cartwright. Meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton,ā¦
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John Thornāthe official historian of Major League Baseballāis a living encyclopedia, and this is his definitive tome on the gameās nineteenth-century beginnings, from the amateur era to the rise of the first professional leagues. This and Gilbertās book might be viewed as companion piecesāindeed, Thorn wrote the introduction to How Baseball Happenedāand both dispel the ridiculous myth that the game was invented in Cooperstown, New York by a young man who would grow up to be a Civil War hero, but Thorn goes deep on the fascinating story of who created that myth, and why, which is a taleā¦
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