Baseball's Creation Myth by Brian Martin

Author:Brian Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

Cooperstown residents apparently needed time to digest the village’s newfound status as the cradle of baseball, since little was done to capitalize on it in the near term. The lack of response underlined the fact that fame was not something Cooperstown had sought; rather, that fame had been foisted upon a village that was completely unprepared to deal with it. Several times during the next few years it was suggested that some sort of monument to the first game of baseball was needed, but nothing came of it. The sleepy village remained sleepy for awhile yet. As Rowan D. Spraker, the longtime editor of the Freeman’s Journal, put it:

The fact that Cooperstown had been designated as the birthplace by the Committee [Mills Commission] had little effect upon the community when it was announced in Spalding’s Baseball Guide of 1908. Cooperstown did not vie for this designation and it had little, or no, effect upon the community. The Freeman’s Journal ... carried a story on the decision of the Commission and that was the last that Cooperstown thought about the situation for a number of years.9

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