In the Coal Town of Helper, Baseball was More than a Pastime

Purportedly created by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, N. Y. in 1839, and set to rules by Alexander Cartwright in 1845, what would become our "national pastime" entered American life. In the rural mining and railroad town of Helper, Utah, it was that, and much more.

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