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Posted By: barrysloate

That's a very poetic way of putting it, valuing the myth over the reality.

But we are baseball historians, and it has to rile you at least a little bit when you realize that baseball is America's pastime, and has been for nearly 150 years, yet they can't even get its creation right.

It's as if Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb, but they decided to credit Mark Twain instead. It makes no sense.