Article: The Baltimore Sun Peter Schmuck column.(Column)

Byline: Peter Schmuck

Jul. 28--COOPERSTOWN, N.Y -- It is the pleasant nature of this quaint little upstate village that makes it so easy to overlook the disconnect between truth and legend that allowed it to become the hometown of baseball history.

If baseball wasn't invented here, it should have been.

Cooperstown is the place where fact and fiction have long been locked in a strange embrace -- a town named for the family of one of America's greatest storytellers and the site where baseball supposedly began, though nobody really believes that anymore.

In a strange sort of way, that's what makes everything about this weekend seem so ...

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