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Abner Doubleday myth
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When Did Baseball Start? The Hidden Origins of America’s Game
Yet the most enduring myth about baseball’s origins is also its most persistent: that a single Civil War-era officer, Abner Doubleday, invented the game in...
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The Origins of Baseball: When Was Baseball Made and How It Became America’s Game
The myth of Abner Doubleday drawing up the first rules on a Cooperstown, New York, field in 1839 is as enduring as it is false—a tale concocted in 1905 by the...