April 2, 1907 - The Baseball Powers of the era at the urging of baseball fans, decided to find the root history of the game. Thus, the Mills Commission was created to determine who invented the game of baseball. Spearheaded by the third President of the National League, Abraham Mills, they looked to find out and memorialize the origins of baseball. At the urging of A. G. Spalding, a baseball man who founded a sporting goods empire, the Civil War hero, Abner Doubleday was erroneously connected as the founder of the National Pastime. This was the accepted narrative for the origin of baseball for almost a century until researchers set the record straight.
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