Town of Killen Killen is a town in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Florence - Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Statistical Area known as The Shoals.
The story that military officer Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 is a particularly pernicious bit of American myth-making. Many baseball historians admit the story is patently false since Doubleday was at West Point when he would've been playing that legendary first game.
The official historian for Major League Baseball has dethroned Alexander Cartwright Jr. as the inventor of modern baseball in an adapted excerpt of a new book that appeared in Sunday's New York Times. FoxSports Mar 13, 2011 at 12:00a ET. 0. Shares.