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   ocr: America's National Game Deep 1n the folklore of. American sports lies the story ofbaseball's S supposed invention by a young West Point cadet, Abner Doubleday, 1n the summer of 1839 at the village of Cooperstown, New York. The yarn originated 11 1907,in the final report of a committee commissioned by major league executives to inquire into the ongins of" America' S National Game. 27 The claim that the game was invented by the late Doubleday, who also won enduring fame as a Union general in the Civil War, was based on the dubious