Mr. A. G. Mills

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  The researcher said the 1907 findings of a commission created by National League President Abraham Mills that Doubleday had invented baseball helped create the "myth" of the sport's origins.

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  In 1907, Spalding persuaded Abraham Mills, president of the National League, professional baseball's oldest organized league, to set up a commission to settle the dispute.

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  The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.

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  Its chairman, A.G. Mills, had been president of the National League; two members were U.S. senators.
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  Mills claimed to believe the letter, although he ignored Graves's statement that Doubleday's rules had permitted a player to put out a runner between bases by hitting him with a thrown ball. In fact, Mills claimed Doubleday had eliminated this practice.

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  Abraham G. Mills

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  Abraham G. Mills

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  The commission was guided by A. G. Mills, president of the National [Baseball] League and, it so happened, a friend for thirty years of the recently deceased [Abner] Doubleday.

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  Mr. A. G. Mills was connected with the Chicago Club at the organizationof the National League, and he participated in the legislative work of theLeague from 1876 to 1885 when he resigned his position as President, towhich position he was unanimously elected on the death of PresidentHulbert.To his efficient services as President and one of the Board ofDirectors is the success of the League after the death of its founderlargely due.He was the originator of the National Agreement which has sofirmly bound together the National League and the American Association.Since he resigned his position as President of the League in 1885, he hasbeen practically out of Base Ball, although he still takes a deep interestin the game.

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  In 1907 an investigating commission headed by A. G. Mills (1844–1929), a former National League president, reported that certain basic rules of play as well as the design of the first diamond (the placement of the bases on the field formed a playing area in this shape) had been devised at Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1839.The American soldier Abner Doubleday, then a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy, was credited with establishing the ground rules.Some authorities later contended that the findings of the commission were based on inconclusive evidence.At any rate, in recognition of Doubleday's purported contribution to the sport, Cooperstown was later selected as the site of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (see BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM, NATIONAL).

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  National League president Abraham Mills chaired the commission, which included two members of the Senate as well as other dignitaries.
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  Spalding, Mills, and the rest of the committee were thrilled when they received a copy of the Beacon Journal article.

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