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On a rainy, late-spring day that forced the festivities inside, the Baseball Hall of Fame celebrated its diamond anniversary on Thursday with more than 300 people gathered in the museum's showpiece Plaque Gallery. ''It is the history of baseball.'' Stephen Clark, a Cooperstown native and grandson of one of the founders of the Singer Sewing Machine Co., and National League president Ford Frick were the main movers behind the creation of the Hall of Fame, and they championed the idea based on the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown. ''We are baseball's version of the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, all in one,'' said Hall of Fame Chairman Jane Forbes Clark, granddaughter of Stephen Clark. What a visionary my grandfather was, taking Cooperstown and giving it things that would carry it into the next century.
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