 It was his connection to baseball as a player, manager, and sportswriter that lent credibility to his assertion that Cooperstown, New York be the location for a "memorial" to the great players from the past.Cooperstown was, at the time, the place that many people believed where Abner Doubleday had invented the game of baseball.It was this idea of a memorial that eventually led to the creation of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in .