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BIBLIOGRAPH ORIGINS OF BASEBALL

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doubleday field- myth says that it was ont his hoistoric ground

that Adner doubleday myth traces its roots to 1889 at

Delmonicos restaurant in new york city. At a dinner honoring

the game star players ,league executive A.G. MILLS

proclaimed amidst ear-shattering applause that research had

established baseball to be of american origin.

when Doubleday story was released, true historians took

issue. After a decade of debate ,Mills convened a blue -ribbon

commission including two U.S.senators to investigate the matter.

Despite its flasehood, the commission published a report confirming

the Doubleday myth. With Doubleday long since dead.The only

evidence was the testimony of one elderly man.Why did A.G. Mills

pick a man named Adner Doubleday? Mills and Doubleday were

soldies together in the civil war

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The myth that one crisp spring day in 1839 in cooperstown,new york ,

Abner Doubleday took a squad of 20 boys playing a disorganized

fieldgame and divided them into teams. He then laid out four bases,

a six-foot ring for a pitcher,and basic rules for scoring and making outs.

He called the game ''Base-ball''. Currently know as Doubleday Field, the

hallowed grounds where this historic event took place are considered

the brithplace of baseball .

The most startling fact of this story is its complete falsehood.

None of Doubleday"s memoirs ever mentioned the game and in 1839

Doubleday was a student at West Point . The myth was generated as

a patriotic publicity move by baseball magnates of the early era.Perhaps the

biggiest reason for myth"s success was the extreme passion for the game

felt by Americans in the early days

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