Baseball Game: Abner Doubleday

Abner Doubleday: A new book by London Free Press reporter Chip Martin argues Canadians had a pivotal role in the creation of baseball, the game widely regarded as America's past-time, according to Huffington Post. Martin explains that Abner Graves, the man who helped create the Doubleday/Cooperstown myth may have been inspired by an 1838 baseball game in Beachville, Ontario. That story was later passed on to sporting goods tycoon Albert Spalding who was running a prominent commission to determine the origins of baseball and Was the first baseball game in North America played in Canada? The story that military officer Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 is a particularly pernicious bit of American myth-making. Many baseball historians admit the story is patently false since Doubleday was at West Point when he would've been playing that legendary first game. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.