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Posted By: barrysloate

I think anyone who is trying to research and recreate lost history has to speculate somewhere along the way. I believe David researched this as best he could (I was his sounding board during a good part of the project) and even he understands that there will be other theories by other baseball historians down the road. What is most fascinating is something as ingrained in the American psyche as baseball is still so difficult to pin down historically. We can recreate the Civil War on a day by day basis but nobody can say with absolute certainty how baseball evolved. But I think David has done the best job yet and who knows, maybe in ten years someone will come along with a whole new set of ideas.