In “The Book of Baseball Literacy:” David H. Martinez accurately refers to Doc Adams as an early “Father of Baseball”. He also discusses how modern research (by John Thorn, et al) has demonstrated that Alexander Cartwright’s role has been exaggerated with erroneous attribution of contributions. Contributions that should be more correctly credited to Doc Adams.

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