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What Should We Do About ‘Doubleday Myth’?

COOPERSTOWN – Review three opinions on “The Doubleday Myth,” the story about baseball’s Cooperstown origins:

• “The Man Who Didn’t Invest Baseball,” by Victor Salvatore, American Heritage, June-July 1983

• “The Creation Myths of Cooperstown,” by Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, November 1989

• “Abner Doubleday Story True,  And It’s Ours,” Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta, June, 2014

What’s your opinion about the Abner Doubleday story?  E-mail info@allotsego.com

 

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