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    Abner Doubleday and Baseball's Beginning: Separating Fact from Fiction
    Abner Doubleday and Baseball's Beginning: Separating Fact from Fiction
    Abner Doubleday and Baseball's Beginning: Separating Fact from Fiction
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    Abner Doubleday and Baseball's Beginning: Separating Fact from Fiction

    By Nel Yomtov

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    Step up to the plate and separate fact from fiction in baseball’s origins! Did Abner Doubleday really create America’s favorite pastime, or does this story strike out? Learn all you can about baseball’s beginnings with infographics, primary sources, and expertly leveled text.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateJan 1, 2021
    ISBN9781977157317
    Abner Doubleday and Baseball's Beginning: Separating Fact from Fiction
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    Nel Yomtov

    Nel Yomtov is an award-winning author of children's nonfiction books and graphic novels. He specializes in writing about history, current events, biography, architecture, and military history. He has written numerous graphic novels for Capstone, including the recent School Strike for Climate, Journeying to New Worlds: A Max Axiom Super Scientist Adventure, and Cher Ami: Heroic Carrier Pigeon of World War I. In 2020 he self-published Baseball 100, an illustrated book featuring the 100 greatest players in baseball history. Nel lives in the New York City area.

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