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Article: WAS BASEBALL REALLY HIS GAME? EVIDENCE SUGGESTS DOUBLEDAY WAS STRICTLY A MILITARY MAN.(Sports)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 1, 1990
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Byline: Associated Press
It makes sense, somehow, that the house Abner Doubleday was born in might not really be the house he was born in.
After all, Doubleday was the same man who supposedly invented baseball in Cooperstown at the same time he was attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point over 100 miles away.
No wonder the owner of the one- time Doubleday homestead says the historic landmark might not be so historic.
"Abner might very well have been born in a (nearby) print shop," said John Cromie, a lawyer and amateur historian who rents out the refurbished house for office space.
Cromie says there is no real ...