GMALL Lectures – Double-Talk on Doubleday

Double-Talk on Doubleday: How a Civil War General Invented Baseball Without His Permission. It is becoming more widely known that Abner Doubleday had no connection to baseball, but why, and for what purposes, did baseball’s boosters construct an origin story with him at the epicenter? Rowly Brucken, a professor at Norwich University, explores the founding myths of baseball’s real and fictional origins.