"Among the many books that have educated us about the birth and infancy of baseball, John Thorn’s extraordinarily detailed and well-documented 'Baseball in the Garden of Eden' is the advanced seminar, the one that begins by telling you that everything you thought you knew is wrong. Its premise is that when it comes to baseball, what is generally thought to be history is myth, and the two most prominent myths — the one that Abner Doubleday invented the game in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1839, and the other that the responsible party was a New Yorker, Alexander Cartwright, who formalized the game’s rules in 1845 — were promulgated by men with ulterior motives."
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