Baseball's Creation Myth: Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story

Provides a surprising answer to the origins of America's most durable myth. For the first time, this book links the stories and lives of Abner Graves, a mining engineer, and Adam Ford, a medical doctor, two residents of Denver, Colorado. While the actual origins of the game of baseball are the subject of ongoing debate and study, new light is shed on the source of baseball's durable creation myth.