Question

america at play
by susan reybum
what is the central idea of this excerpt from the article \america at play\ by susan reyburn?
baseball did not originate where baseball officials originally claimed
baseball originated with doubleday, and then england created a different version.
people are unable to decide where baseball originated.
as major league baseball prepared to celebrate what it thought was the sports centennial in 1939, it relied on a 1907 mills commission report that credited abner doubleday as the games inventor. the commission had accepted a personal account from abner graves that placed doubleday in cooperstown, n.y., where he supposedly spent the summer of 1839 creating the national pastime. had baseball officials consulted with library of congress staff, they might have dug up irrefutable proof that baseballs tangled roots in america did not originate with doubleday on a new york farm, but instead lie deep in colonial-era soil and-yes-england

Explanation:

The text states that baseball officials relied on a report crediting Abner Doubleday as the inventor (claiming origin in Cooperstown, NY). But there's evidence that baseball's roots don't start with Doubleday in NY but in colonial - era America and England. So the central idea is about the origin not being where officials claimed.

Answer:

Baseball did not originate where baseball officials originally claimed.