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06-04-03, 07:24 AM
"Doubleday is completely a myth," says Tom Wile, director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. "That theory was born out of 19th-century nationalism. There's no documented evidence he ever set foot in Cooperstown.

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djlong
06-04-03, 07:43 PM
Ummm.. Anyone who watched the first "inning" of Ken Burn's "Baseball" back in 1994 knew that :)