Abner Graves told the Mills Commission, created in 1905 to determine baseball's origins, that Abner Doubleday invented the game in Cooperstown, likely in 1839, and although Doubleday was at West Point at the time, Graves's story endured. Beginning in 1919, the local Chamber of Commerce leased and then purchased a pasture to create a baseball diamond named for Doubleday. Cooperstown residents voted to acquire the field in 1923, and improvements began. As the centennial of baseball's mythical invention approached, the current grandstand was added in time for the Cavalcade of Baseball on June 12, 1939, when ten thousand people came to see great players compete on teams led by Honus Wagner and Eddie Collins. That same day, the Hall of Fame's first inductees arrived at the new Baseball Museum. Though the Mills Commission was mistaken in declaring Cooperstown the birthplace of baseball, Cooperstown remains the hometown of the national pastime.