June 12, 1839 –
Alexander Cartwright, and not, Abner Doubleday, should be credited with the invention of Baseball.
On the one hundredth anniversary of the apocryphal story, the National Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York (in an effort to bring tourists to town.)
The first five inductees were Walter Johnson, Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson and Babe Ruth.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 