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Who Invented Baseball, Anyway?

Was it Abner Doubleday or the English?

Who Invented Baseball, Anyway?
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, sixth and seventh from left, respectively, in Santa Barbara, in 1927.

TRUE OR FALSE: Babe Ruth played baseball in Santa Barbara.

True or false: As everyone knows, baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, NY, in 1839. Right?

Answers: Yankee slugger Babe Ruth did play here in a 1927 exhibition game against locals at Peabody Stadium.