who decided that the baseball hall of fame would be in Cooperstown?

Answer 1

The Hall of Fame was dedicated on June 12, 1939 by Stephen Carlton Clark, grandson of Edward Clark, who was a founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Stephen C. Clark was owner of a local hotel and sought to bring tourists to Cooperstown, which had been damaged by the Great Depression, which significantly reduced the local tourist trade, and by Prohibition, which had devastated the local hops industry. A claim that U.S. Civil War hero Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown was instrumental in the early marketing of the Hall.

Answer 2

A commission had done some research into the issue of where baseball was "invented" in anticipation of a centennial in 1939. The members came up with the concept that Abner Doubleday invented the game in Cooperstown. Doubleday was at Fort Sumter at the start of the Civil War, and apparently owned an old baseball that some claimed had a connection to the start of the sport. It was all more legend than fact, and maybe marketing had a role in all of this, but the Hall was dropped there.

Answer 3

It is believed that Cooperstown is where baseball was invented

Answer 4

GOD