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Yet, Canadians recorded a "baseball" game played in 1838 in Beachville, Ontario.2 Does the Canadian record debunk the Doubleday baseball legend? The answer, in all likelihood, is no. The modern-day game of baseball most resembles the form of baseball developed in New York in the early nineteenth century.3 Canadian baseball, however, developed ...
Jul 17, 2013 · 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. The story that military officer Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 is a particularly pernicious bit of American myth-making.
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Some fans may not know it, but the first recorded game of baseball took place in Canada, a year before Abner Doubleday supposedly "invented" the game in Cooperstown, New York.
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The first baseball game recorded in Canada was played in Beachville, Ontario on June 4, 1838 (before the purported codification of the game by Abner Doubleday). Many Canadians, including the staff of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in St. Marys, Ontario, claim that this was the first documented game of modern baseball, although there ...
Baseball in played at the amateur or semi-pro level in Canada as well. The Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) is an amateur, semi-professional baseball organization located in the Canadian province of Ontario. The league was formed in 1919. The Intercounty Baseball League exists so that baseball players who were not signed by a Major or Minor League...
Stephen Dame: "First Base Among Equals: Prime Ministers and Canada's National Game", in Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Vol. 49, Nr. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 57-61.Marc de Foy: Baseball PQ: Une histoire illustrée, Les Éditions du Journal, Montréal, QC, 2019. ISBN 978-2-89761-087-6William Humber: Cheering for the Home Team: The Story of Baseball in Canada, Boston Mills Press, Erin, ON, 1983. ISBN 978-0919822542Jan 9, 2016 · Despite the apocryphal nature of baseball’s origin story, Abner Doubleday remains tied to baseball lore. The cow pasture owned by Elihu Phinney, where Doubleday is purported to have invented the game, is home to Doubleday Field at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Jan 13, 2016 · First, his military career was lengthy and he “was the highest ranking officer in the Civil War to have been part of so many of the Civil War’s major events.”1 Second, he did not invent baseball, despite the false assertion from the Mills Commission and others.
Jun 30, 2022 · Baseball historians long ago debunked the popular myth about Abner Doubleday inventing the game of baseball. Yet the Doubleday legacy lives on in places like Cooperstown, New York, where the...
