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Abner Doubleday
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Thomas Barthel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-10 - Publisher: McFarland

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While Abner Doubleday is remembered primarily, and mistakenly, for having "invented" baseball (he did not), it was his selfless exercise of duty to his nation t
Abner Doubleday: His Life and Times
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: JoAnn Smith Bartlett
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-18 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

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Abner Doubleday: His Life and Times is a full-length biography of a man who lingered on the fringes of history for nearly 150 years. His story is one of a man w
Baseball in the Garden of Eden
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: John Thorn
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-20 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Did baseball even have a father--or did it just evolve from
Baseball's Creation Myth
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: Brian Martin
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-28 - Publisher: McFarland

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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 ga
Abner & Me
Language: en
Pages: 180
Authors: Dan Gutman
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-06 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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Cannons are blasting! Bullets are flying! Wounded soldiers are everywhere! Stosh has time-traveled to 1863, right into the middle of the Civil War. In possibly