2006-07-08 07:33:50 · 12 answers · asked by Peter 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Abbot and Costello for the best comedy routine ever about baseball or anything.
"Who's on first?"
"What's on second?
"I don't know." "Third Base!"
2006-07-08 07:36:56 · answer #1 · answered by Dennis Fargo 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
This question is frequently answered, "Abbott and Costello" because a recording of their famous "Who's on First" routine is in the Hall of Fame. But then again, so are copies of many famous baseball movies, and very few of the people associated with making those movies had anything to do with baseball, either.
Abner Doubleday, however, though not a member of the Hall of Fame, is intimately associated with it. Cooperstown, New York, was Doubleday's home town, and the Hall is built on the site where Doubleday is said to have invented the game of baseball in the 1830s. His voluminous memoirs are kept in the Hall of Fame, too.
There is only one problem: Doubleday did not invent baseball, and indeed had nothing to do with the game. At the time he supposedly invented baseball, he was not even present in Cooperstown, being a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy. His memoirs do not mention the game at all, even though soldiers on both sides of the Civil War played baseball (sometimes against each other). Had he created the game he would not have failed to say so.
Doubleday, who was famous at the time for having taken over a corps command during the battle of Gettysburg, was conveniently dead when a commission held meetings to determine who created the game and when it happened. Some dubious personal "reminiscences" tilted the matter in favor of Doubleday.
In fact, Alexander Cartwright first codified the rules in 1845 for his team, the New York Knickerbockers. For this contribution, Cartwright was named to the Hall of Fame in 1938. He is generally regarded as the founder of baseball.
2006-07-08 17:05:10 · answer #2 · answered by BroadwayPhil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abbott and Costello are not members of the baseball Hall of Fame. This question gets asked all the time and answered incorrectly.
Go to the baseball Hall of Fame web site if you don't believe me.
2006-07-08 15:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by danceman528 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is Morganna the Kissing Bandit in the hall of fame yet?
What about Bartman?
2006-07-08 14:37:20 · answer #4 · answered by Mister_fin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abner Doubleday.
2006-07-08 16:13:55 · answer #5 · answered by JerH1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everybody because thers no hall of frame
2006-07-08 15:01:48 · answer #6 · answered by zack77766 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The staff and the visitors.
2006-07-08 14:42:28 · answer #7 · answered by Daniel Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what's a 'hall of frame'?
2006-07-08 16:11:27 · answer #8 · answered by koub 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the people who visit there.MMMMMMM.. DONUTS.
2006-07-08 14:41:18 · answer #9 · answered by Porter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
idk...is that a trick question lol
2006-07-08 14:35:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋