Who is the Real Father of Baseball?

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Barry, it does seem a contradiction in the Hall of Fame's early beginnings that they inducted Cartwright, but not Doubleday, but they did name their baseball field after Doubleday. I guess the evidence for Doubleday which is nonexistent and based only on Spalding's nationalistic wishes that the game have its roots in America was enough for the Hall of Fame to go with the Cartwright story which does have some merit...and it's quite possible that AJC was an integral part of the modern games origins. Seems to me that the Hall honoring Doubleday in a different way was to keep those that subscribed to Spalding's "findings" happy.

In short what my rambling is trying to say was that perhaps the Hall's induction of Cartwright was somewhat a reactionary move.