The man who invented baseball

by Harold Peterson

Book Overview

Book by Peterson, Harold This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684131854
• ISBN13: 9780684131856
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Scribner
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Baseball diamond in the rough of history

More irritating than calling 2000 the start of the next millenium, is the widespread, mistaken belief that Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball. Doubleday, a Civil War officer who may never have attended a game, was used by a sporting goods company's phony flag-waving sales campaign. Alexander Cartwright, a New York bank clerk, not only designed the first diamond, wrote most of the rules still used today, organized and captained the first game, and sewed the first baseball -- he also became the young sport's Johnny Appleseed, popularizing it from New England to Hawaii and Japan. Author Peterson picks up Cartwright's trail a century later. He even chills his non-fiction readers with a surprise ending. The Man Who Invented Baseball is a treasure for lovers of American history and American baseball. Alexander Cartwright, by the way, is in the Hall of Fame. Guess who isn't?