. The story of Cooperstown . s for the two sides. I wasnt in thegame, but stood close by Doubleday, and wantedProf. Green to win. In his first time at bat missed three consecutive balls. Abnercaught all three, then pounded Mr. Green onthe back with the ball, while they and all otherswere roaring with laughter, and yelling Prof,is out! It is of interest to recall that Abner Doubleday,the inventor of Base Ball went from his school The Watkins place on Chestnut Street, opposite the VillageHall, occupies this training ground, which extended east andsouth to the rear of the buildings on
. The story of Cooperstown . s for the two sides. I wasnt in thegame, but stood close by Doubleday, and wantedProf. Green to win. In his first time at bat missed three consecutive balls. Abnercaught all three, then pounded Mr. Green onthe back with the ball, while they and all otherswere roaring with laughter, and yelling Prof,is out! It is of interest to recall that Abner Doubleday,the inventor of Base Ball went from his school The Watkins place on Chestnut Street, opposite the VillageHall, occupies this training ground, which extended east andsouth to the rear of the buildings on Main Street, and includedpart of the Phinney lot. The clergy house of St. Marys Church occupies the site ofthe Otsego Academy. The Country Club grounds. The present Brookwood. 256 THE STORY OF COOPERSTOWN in Cooperstown to West Point, where he wasgraduated in 1842, and served with distinctionin the Civil War, attaining to the rank of MajorGeneral. Base Ball, indeed, owes much of itsvogue to the United States Army, for it was. The Original House at Apple Hill played as a camp diversion by the soldiers of theCivil War, who, during the years of peace that fol-lowed, spread the fever of this pastime through-out the length and breadth of the United States,and thus gave to the game its national 1908, at the time of the Base Ball Commis-sions decision that the game originated at Coop-erstown in 1839, there were several old residentsof the village whose recollections included that THE BIRTHPLACE OF BASE BALL 257 early period. On the strength of their statementsrests a probability that the Cooperstown Classicaland Military Academy, which was flourishing in1839 under Major William H. Duff, was theschool attended by Doubleday. This would be inaccord with the recollection of Abner Graves that,in 1839, Doubleday was at school somewhere onthe hill. This school was at Apple Hill, as itwas called, in the grounds of the present Fern-leigh, where the Clark residence was built andnow
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