You ARE the father: Who is Doc Adams, baseball's dad? (Yahoo Sports)

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Daniel Lucius ''Doc'' Adams may never be a household name like baseball's imagined inventor Abner Doubleday or basketball's actual inventor James Naismith. But a newly verified set of documents, titled ''Laws of Base Ball,'' sold at auction early Sunday for nearly $3.3 million, go a long way toward lifting him to legendary status.