Though General Abner Doubleday is generally credited with inventing the game of baseball, the truth is that he was only a cadet at West Point and nowhere near Cooperstown in 1839, when and where it was supposedly created. Instead, if there is a single man who deserves any credit for its creation it would be English sportswriter Henry Chadwick. Chadwick didn’t invent baseball either; even he would publicly cite baseball’s descent from an English game called rounders, which utilized a lot of the same rules. But Chadwick did help popularize…
