Malcolm and Majumdar and Brown correctly interpret the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown , New York , in 1839 as an expression of American ( End Page 172 ) nationalism .
They fail to cite the earliest attempts to identify baseball as an indigenous pastime .
Malcolm and Majumdar and Brown correctly interpret the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown , New York , in 1839 as an expression of American ( End Page 172 ) nationalism , but they fail to cite the earliest attempts to identify baseball as an indigenous pastime .