33. Abner Doubleday was never inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame
The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York is a shrine to the American sport alleged to have been invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839. The story of Doubleday inventing the game is widely regarded as false by historians, evidence of a game called base-ball exists from several decades earlier in New England and New York. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, enacted a bylaw prohibiting the playing of several games involving the use of balls, including specifically baseball, in 1791. Still, the Baseball Hall of Fame recognizes Doubleday as the inventor of baseball though strangely enough the former Union general in the Civil War has never been inducted into the hall.