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Old 04-04-2007, 01:45 PM   #21
Syd Thrift
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What's so great about an endorsement from an obscure Civil War general who never saw a computer or (probably) a single game of baseball?

Doubleday wrote two books and left many personal papers after his death, and none of them so much as mention the game (OOTP or baseball).
I don't know what kind of non-baseball-loving hole you crawled out of, son, but 'round here when Cap Anson says that it is so, it is so. This one guy found an old baseball in Cooperstown, okay? That means Abner Doubleday invented the game. IT WAS NOT BASED ON ROUNDERS AND YOU ARE A COMMUNIST IF YOU THINK THAT.
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The Great American Baseball Thrift Book - Like reading the Sporting News from back in the day, only with fake players. REAL LIFE DRAMA THOUGH maybe not
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