Pittsfield, MA Birthplace Of Baseball

For years, the myth was fact: Cooperstown was the birthplace of baseball. Most now know that Abner Doubleday did not create the game of base ball in 1839 in upstate New York. And, even if there were actual documentation showing that Doubleday started playing the game in Cooperstown at that time, there is documentation that pre-dates that mythological reference by over 40 years.

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