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Author Carried Now-Lost 1828 Clipping of Ball Game in Rochester
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| Text | "Your article on baseball's origins reminded me of an evening spent in Cooperstown with the author Samuel Hopkins Adams more than 30 years ago. Over a drink we discussed briefly the folk tale about the "invention" of baseball in this village in 1839. "Even then we knew that the attribution to Abner Doubleday was a myth. Sam Adams capped the discussion by pulling from his wallet a clipping culled from a Rochester newspaper dated 1828 that described in some detail the baseball game that had been played that week in Rochester." Note: Priscilla Astifan has looked hard for such an article, and it resists finding. Letter from Frederick L. Rath, Jr, to the Editor of the New York Times, October 5, 1990. Note: other accounts use different dates for this story. Adams' biography also notes the author's doubts about the Doubleday theory: asked in 1955 about his novel Grandfather Stories, which places baseball in Rochester in 1827 [sic], he retorted "'I am perfectly willing to concede that Cooperstown is the home of the ice cream soda, the movies and the atom bomb, and that General Doubleday wrote Shakespeare. But," and he read a newspaper account of the [1828?] Rochester game." Samuel V. Kennedy, Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing (Syracuse University Press, 1999), page 284. Submitted by Priscilla Astifan, 1/14/2008 email. |
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1828c. Author Carried Now-Lost 1828 Clipping of Ball Game in Rochester"
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