It is now fairly well-known that Abner Doubleday did not invent baseball. All my life, I have heard repeatedly that he had invented baseball. But, we are now told, he did not. There's a good chance that he never ever saw a baseball game.

     In 1908, a commission investigating the early years of baseball declared that it was invented, in Cooperstown, NY,by Abner Doubleday, before the Civil War. They may have decided this because he was a Civil War hero. Maybe they thought that it would lend the game some needed respectability.

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