‘Echoes From The Ballpark‘ by Alan Ross is a brief history of the National Pastime.

In it, Doc Adams is recognized as a founding father of baseball.

In 1904, Henry Chadwick, an early American sportswriter and baseball statistician, famously remarked, “Baseball never had no ‘fadder’; it jest growed.”…

Although there may be no single, True Father of baseball, John Thorn (Official Baseball Historian of MLB) said it best in Doc Adams’ profile in the SABR Baseball Biography Project: “For his role in making baseball the success it is, Doc Adams may be counted as first among the Fathers of Baseball.”