Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story
Author:   Brian Martin
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:  

9780786471997


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   12 June 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Brian Martin
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9780786471997


ISBN 10:   0786471999
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   12 June 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface One. A Simple Letter Two. A Son of Cooperstown Three. A Letter from Denver Four. The Doctor Moves On Five. Eleven Years in Denver Six. The Doctor Strikes Out Seven. Filling a Need Eight. The Myth Exposed, Promoted, Adopted Nine. An Unhappy Ending Ten. Cooperstown Prevails Eleven. Remembering the Storytellers Twelve. Testing a Tale Thirteen. Grand Theft, Baseball? Epilogue Appendix A: A. G. Spalding’s Appeal for Information About Early Baseball (1905) Appendix B: Abner Graves’s Response to Spalding (1905) Appendix C: Adam Ford’s Letter (1886) Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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entertaining...fascinating accounts...recommended --<i>Library Journal</i>; one of the best and most important Canadian baseball books ever written --Kevin Glew, blogger for Cooperstowners in Canada; meticulously researched --<i>Roundup Magazine</i>; 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 --<i>Toronto Sun</i>; an academic work that will intrigue baseball historians --<i>The London Free Press</i>; 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 --<i>canadianbaseballnetwork.com</i>; <i>Baseball's Creation Myth</i> 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.


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Award-winning journalist Brian Martin lives in London, Ontario. He is a member of the selection committee of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and the Society for American Baseball Research.

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