tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813155461240201466.post2938566091662776494..comments2023-10-07T03:31:20.223-04:00Comments on Gratz Industries: Historically Inaccurate Historical MarkersGratz Industrieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06857642568906965743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813155461240201466.post-31997935692278874922008-08-14T10:47:00.000-04:002008-08-14T10:47:00.000-04:00Tom (the above poster) points out to me via e-mail...Tom (the above poster) points out to me via e-mail that I had Mr. Grave's first name wrong--it's Abner. (And I've since made the correction.) He also tells me that Abner Doubleday never lived in Cooperstown--his father did, but Doubleday, Sr. left six years before Abner was born.<BR/><BR/>Thanks, Tom!Alan Gratzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528858793775172285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5813155461240201466.post-5378441955607334672008-08-13T23:01:00.000-04:002008-08-13T23:01:00.000-04:00I am writing a book on Abner Doubleday and you pos...I am writing a book on Abner Doubleday and you post below is laden with errors.<BR/>tombart0@yahoo.com<BR/>"The Doubleday myth was created by Robert Graves and Albert G. Spalding in an effort to prove that baseball was an "All-American" game, and accepted by Major League Baseball without much in-depth inquiry. The myth was compounded when MLB chose Doubleday's hometown, Cooperstown, as the site for their Hall of Fame in 1939--the supposed one hundred year anniversary of Doubleday's "invention"--and repeated in marketing and promotion materials."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com