19 Thurlow Weed, Autobiography, ed. Harriet A. Weed (Boston, 1883).

20 Abner Doubleday was not the inventor of baseball, as the official histories would have us believe. But neither was his association mythical, as some revisionists have suggested. For a review of the evidence see Seymour, Baseball, The Early Years, 12.

21“Ball playing was less well known in the southern colonies.” Seymour, Baseball, The Early Years, 7; Holliman, American Sport, 7.