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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Yes, Joann, here is the outline of that episode from Burns' work onbaseball:

Inning One, "Our Game", looks at the origins of baseball in the 1840s and takes the story up to 1900. Burns refutes the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown and traces its roots instead to the earliest days of the nation — there are records of a game called "Base" played at Valley Forge. (This is where they show the book and mention it)