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a village of 1,800 people that decides who baseball remembers forever.
means a small town in upstate new york, home to the national baseball hall of fame, where the sport enshrines its immortals.
from founded by william cooper in 1786, father of novelist james fenimore cooper, the town got baseball fame from a debunked 1905 myth that abner doubleday invented the game there in 1839 — the hall opened anyway in 1939 and the legend stuck harder than the facts.
population vs visitors1,800 residents, over 250,000 annual hall visitors
doubleday mythhistorians agree he never even played baseball
induction weekendturns the whole village into a baseball pilgrimage site
for instance
doubleday field — small ballpark built on the mythical birthplace, still hosts games
induction ceremony — held every july, drawing tens of thousands to a town square