Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer (Childhood of Famous Americans) [Paperback]

Montrew Dunham (Author), Gray Morrow (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Childhood of Famous Americans

Rich or poor, black or white, great American men and women lived out childhoods vastly different from the adult lives they led. With these lively, inspiring, believable biographies today's child is swept right into history.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks; 1st Alladin Paperbacks ed edition (March 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0689717881
• ISBN-13: 978-0689717888
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,063,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A dis-service to young baseball fans, June 14, 1999

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James Eddy (Tuscaloosa, AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer (Childhood of Famous Americans) (Paperback)

This book helps to perpetuate the myth that Abner Doubleday had something, anything, to do with the invention of baseball. Any serious baseball fan knows Alexander Cartwright codified the rules of baseball and Doubleday was at West Point in military school when he supposed to be inventing baseball around Cooperstown in 1839. I'm disappointed books like this are still being written.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Correcting previous review, January 31, 2002

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Montrew G. Dunham (Downers Grove,, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer (The Childhood of Famous Americans Series) (Turtleback)

The previous reviewer apparently did not read the book. There is no claim that Abner Doubleday INVENTED baseball, but rather that he was one of the first boys to play the game,as is evident in the title Young Baseball Pioneer. No one would be more surprised than Abner, himself, that he is known for inventing baseball!

The information was carefully researched, including reading the original newspapers published by Abner's father, during Abner's childhood. Abner Doubleday was an exciting man, a courageous and brilliant general in the Union Army, as well as a very interesting boy.