FILE - This June 5, 1941, file photo shows two boys stopping at a plaque for Lou Gehrig at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Baseball has been regarded as an American innovation, with its root in the traditional British games of rounders and the ever-popular cricket, but a diary, on public display in Surrey after being authenticated by experts, at least raises the possibility that baseball began in Britain.(AP Photo/File)