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Posted By: barrysloate

The Doubleday story has become a great embarrassment to the Hall of Fame, because when it opened to the public in 1939, it was to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the invention of the game.

As the years passed and it became increasingly clear that the entire myth was untrue, the Hall had to figure out a way to tactfully deal with this fallacy. It had to be a public relations disaster.