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Posted By: barrysloate

First off, Chadwick's assertion that baseball evolved from rounders has been disproved by David Block, who found numerous references to baseball much earlier than the earliest known one to rounders. So there is an instance where even Chadwick was wrong.

And Abner Graves was an eccentric and colorful individual who was far from a credible witness. If anything, people found him to be a bit daffy (as opposed to dizzy).