By the middle of the 20th century no actual baseball historian of any stature gave credence to the Doubleday myth. Perhaps the most prominent historian to lambaste the Doubleday myth was John Thorn, who long wrote about its apocryphal nature.
The history of baseball is a lie from beginning to end, from its creation myth to its rosy models of commerce, community, and fair play. The truth of the paternity question? It had already been done. All of which made it so shocking when, in October of , then-Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig said this in response to a letter he received from a baseball fan:.
As a student of history, I know there is great debate whether Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright really founded the game of Baseball. In what I suspect was a response to that mocking, the following spring Selig announced the formation of a committee tasked with studying the origins of the game of baseball. Yogi Berra is named manager. Follow craigcalcaterra. We and our partners use cookies on this site to provide a better experience with content, analytics, ads and to help improve security on our site.
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One of the first baseball clubs, New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club, and its founder, Alexander Joy Cartwright, formulated most of the baseball rules in Cartwright and his team saw the need to develop the sport and do away with elements of the game that were seemingly unsafe. These rules brought order to the game, introduced the three-strike rule, and the diamond shaped infield thus many people referred to Cartwright as the true father of baseball.
Baseball is a popular North American game, although when it comes to the origin, American and English sports historians disagree.
While the two parties do not dispute the fact that baseball evolved from other bat and ball games, the world may never truly know where the game originated from because both sides of the argument have supporting facts. Today, baseball is one of the most popular sports for players and spectators in North America. Mark Owuor Otieno September 5 in Society. He convinced Spalding that the game of baseball originated in the American Continent. In Spalding had written a letter to the Daily News to support the idea by Henry Chadwik, a Briton who had emigrated to the US at the age of 13, that the game of baseball had originated from the British game know as rounders.
Spalding supported Chadwik to negate what A. H Sedgwik had published on The Nation in baseball had originated from cricket. Spalding wrote an article in the Cosmopolitan stating that baseball differed too much from both rounders and cricket.
He founded similarity in the French game called tecque, but tended to believe that the origin of baseball was in the cat games cat is another way to name a ball. In the Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio, published a letter by Abner Graves stating that the game of baseball was invented in by a war hero named Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown.
The letter offered an intriguing story. Cooperstown was founded by William Cooper, the father of famed author James Fenimore Cooper, and had become the first town of the Union inhabited by natives of European descent. A Commission chaired by Abraham Gilbert Mills, the former President of the National League, started verification on the letter in By the Commission confirmed the version of Abner Graves.
The year after, Will Irwin found out that in Doubleday was not in Cooperstown. He was actually based at the Military Academy in West Point. Irwin published his findings on Collier's. This was not enough to stop Spalding. He gave more credit to Graves, spreading in more details about those days of Graves said he had witnessed as a College students Doubleday draw the rules of baseball in the dirt. Graves died in at the age of Back in he was not older than 11, so he couldn't have been a College student.
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