I was sitting in a Tasty Freeze in Blakely, Ga., the site of my first church after moving home to South Georgia.
There on the counter of the ice cream stand was a “Grit” newspaper and its thought for the day was, “If ten thousand people say it’s so; that doesn’t’ make it so.”
When asked, “Who invented baseball?” most people would answer, “Abner Doubleday,” and most people would be wrong. Baseball was invented in England. It was first named and described in 1744 in “A Little Pretty Pocket Book” and that book was then reprinted in the United States in 1762.
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