Baseball DIY

I didn't see anything in the literature for the new book talking great tales of Doubleday - it sounds like author Jim Reisler is dead on about the existence of the myth. It also sounds like Cooperstown was a political choice for the Hall - a chance to save a town that was struggling hugely in the midst of the Great Depression.

I think (and this is just me) that there was no myth about Cooperstown when the Hall was built. I think that grew over the years, as people forgot about the economic effects of the Depression and sought some more romantic reason for Hall of Fame being there then just politics and money. (Not that it is a bad place for it - I mean really, where would you have built it?) And the folks that perpetuated that myth were pretty savvy when you think about it. Go to Cooperstown not only for the museum but to actually see where baseball was born..

Can you blame them for giving that idea a go?