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.
1 18th century English diary contains oldest known reference to baseball. 2  Baseball believed to have been played alognside other bat and ball games. 3  Both baseball and cricket may have evolved from earlier game called stool ball.  Exhibition at MCC Museum in London highlights sports' common heritage.