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Posted By: Tom Russo

Ken,
Just to clarify, Doubleday Field is owned by the Village of Cooperstown, whose citizens probably continued to accept the Doubleday myth long after it had been abandoned by historians. I don't think the Hall did the naming of the field. There is a plaque at the entrance of the Doubleday parking lot that states that in a radio poll, Americans voted Doubleday the most important figure in the first 100 years of baseball. So a lot of people were fooled for a long time.

Barry,
Mrs. Doubleday died in January 1907. That is what raised my question as to whether the commission even spoke to her about whether Abner ever mentioned the game or his alleged playmate, Graves.