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Baseball orgin controversy. Baseball Origin Controversy Based on old American
fokelore, baseball's storied invention was by a young ...
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Baseball Origin Controversy
Based on old American fokelore, baseball's storied invention was by a young West Point cadet named Abner Doubleday. In the summer of 1839, in Cooperstown, New York, Doubleday supposedly started the game of baseball. Because of numerous types of baseball, or rather games similar to it, the orgian of the game has been disputed for decades by sports historians all over the world. In 1839, in Cooperstown, New York, Doubleday supposedly started the game of baseball. Doubleday, also a famous Union general during the Civil War, was said to be the inventor of baseball by Abner Graves, an elderly minor from New York. In response to the question of where baseball first originated, major league
owners summoned a committee
e in 1907. Abner Graves stepped before the committee
and gave his testimony. In Graves' account of "the first game," the Otsego Academy and Cooperstown's Green's Select School played against ne another in 1839. Committeemean Alber G. Spalding, the founder of Spalding's Sporting Goods, favored Graves' declaration and convinced the other committee
emen that Grave's account was true. As a result, in 1939, the committee
and the State of New York named Cooperstown and Abner Doubleday as the birthplace and the inventor.
Today, many baseball historians still doubt the testimony of Abner Graves. Historians say the story came from the crative memeory of one very old man and wa spread by a superpatriotic sporting goods manufacturer, determinded to preove that
baseball was a wholly American invention. According to Doubleday's diary, he was not plying badeball in Cooperstown, but attending school at West Point on that day in 1839. Also, historians have found that nowhere in doubleday's diary has he ever "claimed to have had anything to do with baseball, and may never have even seend a game." this leads many to the conclusion that Abner Doubleday did not...
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