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Rating:  - Correcting previous review
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.
Rating:  - A dis-service to young baseball fans
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.
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