Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story - Softcover

Martin, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786471999 ISBN 13: 9780786471997

Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc, 2013

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"entertaining...fascinating accounts...recommended"--Library Journal; "one of the best and most important Canadian baseball books ever written"--Kevin Glew, blogger for Cooperstowners in Canada; "meticulously researched"--Roundup Magazine; "award-winning journalist, Chip Martin has hit another home run with [this] latest book...ground-breaking...exhaustive research...well researched tome will ruffle feathers...an academic work that will intrigue baseball historians"--Toronto Sun; "an academic work that will intrigue baseball historians"--The London Free Press; "fascinating...Martin digs where no other baseball researcher has dug before to present the first detailed accounts of the lives of two complex men with links to the origins of baseball. In doing so, he has not only penned a compelling and groundbreaking page-turner, but he has written a book that should rank as one of the best and most important Canadian and American baseball history books ever released"--canadianbaseballnetwork.com; "Baseball's Creation Myth presents new evidence for the continuing debates on baseball's origins. It is must reading for all baseball fans."--Robert Knight Barney, former president of the North American Society for Sport History.

Reseña del editor:

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. The tale, embraced by Americans, has been proven to be false. To this day, Cooperstown is celebrated as the birthplace of baseball based on an assertion long ago dismissed as impossible. The story has captured the hearts and minds of millions. But who spun that tale and why? This book provides a surprising answer about the origins of America's most durable myth. It seems that Abner Graves, who espoused Cooperstown as the birthplace of the game, likely was inspired by another story about an early game of baseball. The stories were remarkably similar, as were the men who told them. For the first time, this book links the stories and lives of Abner Graves, a mining engineer, and Adam Ford, a medical doctor, two residents of Denver, Colorado. While the actual origins of the game of baseball are the subject of ongoing debate and study, new light is shed on the source of baseball's durable creation myth.

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• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0786471999
• ISBN 13: 9780786471997
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228