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Calling all baseball detectives!

Published Sep. 3, 2014 5:09 p.m. ET

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Everybody loves a good mystery, right?

/not waiting for answer

Well, there’s a doozy in a recent issue of Memories and Dreams, the Hall of Fame’s official magazine. In 1939, upon the supposed 100th anniversary of the supposed invention of supposed baseball -- which is a whole thing we won’t even begin to worry about today because dammit I’m supposed to be on vacation -- every team in Organized Baseball wore this special commemorative shoulder patch:

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Lot #960

Not bad, huh? Here’s the mysterious part, though. While contemporary reports credited the design of the logo -- which also appeared on stickers, booklets, posters, etc. -- to “a young woman artist, Marjori Bennett of New York” … nobody seems to know what became of Ms. Bennett, despite “many hours of research and the assistance of professional historians and genealogists.”

Now the Hall of Fame is asking for the public’s help. So if Marjori’s your Grandma Margie, please contact Cooperstown immediately, c/o Abner Doubleday’s Ghost.

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