Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story
by
Brian Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.S. national pastime was an American game, not derived from the English children's game of rounders as had been believed. The tale, embraced by Americans, has long been proven false...