Appearing at BookExpo America (BEA)--The Most Famous Guy Who Never Invented Baseball

Learn more about the man, the myth and how the legend that he created Americas favorite sport began as illustrator Cathy Morrison signs Free copies of the soon-to-be-published "Abner Doubleday, Boy Baseball Pioneer," Volume 11 in the Young Patriots Series of award-winning historical fiction for young readers. Get your free copy on June 3 from 3:00 to 3:30 at Table 25 in the Traditional Autographing Area of BEA, the yearly convention for the book industry to be held in New York at the Jacob Javits Center June 3-5.

(PRWEB) May 16, 2005 -- What do Play it Again Sam," and Abner Doubleday 's invention of baseball have in common? Neither one ever happened.

Neither Bogey nor Bergman uttered the most famous line never said in the classic movie "Casablanca." And Abner Doubleday, whose hometown of Cooperstown is the site of the Baseball Hall of Fame, never invented baseball.

Learn more about the man, the myth and how the legend that he created Americas favorite sport began as illustrator Cathy Morrison signs FREE copies of the soon-to-be-published "Abner Doubleday, Boy Baseball Pioneer," Volume 11 in the Young Patriots Series of award-winning historical fiction for young readers. Get your free copy on June 3 from 3:00 to 3:30 at Table 25 in the Traditional Autographing Area of BEA, the yearly convention for the book industry to be held in New York at the Jacob Javits Center June 3-5. ( http://www.bookexpoamerica.com)

In other Young Patriots Series events at BEA, the creator and editor of the Series will be speaking to roundtables of childrens booksellers about "Phillis Wheatley, Young Revolutionary Poet," Volume 10, during the Childrens Book Councils (http://www.cbcbooks.org) Book Buzz Workshop program on Thursday, June 2 from 2:00-4:30 in the Javits Center Room 1E9-10.

Throughout BEA, visit the Young Patriots Series creator, Florrie Binford Kichler, at PMA, The Independent Book Publishers Association booth #2540. The Young Patriots Series is distributed to the book trade by Independent Publishers Group.

More information about The Young Patriots Series, winner of six national awards for excellence, can be found at http://www.patriapress.com.

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