Who invented baseball?

No, not Abner Doubleday.

But, not Alexander Cartwright, either.

New MLB official historian John Thorn, in his new book, “Baseball in the Garden of Eden, The Secret History of the Early Game,” has narrowed it down to three possibilities.

From the middle of the 19th century, he introduces the names of Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, the last of which he is reasonably sure laid out the field, put nine men on that field, and expanded a game from seven innings to nine.

Sorry, that's all the details in the Yahoo story. Guess we'll have to buy the book for more.