Baseball has always been a sport by and for the liars.
For example, the popular origins of the game are manifestly a lie. Albert Spalding, a former player who became wealthy by selling and packaging the game, invented the myth that the rules of baseball sprung into the mind of Civil War hero Abner Doubleday during his idyllic boyhood in the hamlet of Cooperstown, New York. As baseball historian John Thorn put it in his excellent book Baseball in the Garden of Eden, “If in the end no one invented our national game, and its innocent Eden is a continuing state of delusion, he,” meaning Spalding, “as unwittingly as Abner Doubleday invented baseball, invented its religion and its shrine.