did he go by the name ray smith? but then a call back. it was the ray smith from colorado.age, place of birth. had grown up without knowing any blood relatives. all he knew was his mother's name. according to his birth certificate was jerry. he was starting to sound a lot like our ray. we asked him to submit to a dna test. he agreed. there was no doubt, we had found him. we brought ray and his fiancee to a los angeles hotel and showed him the story of his sisters. in a way his story too. >> i thought that the story itself was sad. sounded like they had a rough life. it was really similar to mine. so it was. >> it began the same way, too, when shirley took him from jerry. except ray was turned over to a woman named anna lee brown who named minimum jimmy brown. the only name he knew growing up. >> she had told me that she had adopted me, that i was also shipped around a lot from home to home. because she had a lot of help from what i was told. >> he was neglected he said and often abused. bounced around for years. until anna brown shipped him off to a colorado couple when he

a parallel item to that, we have this diary, an original change page from a students diary, john ray smith attending the college of new jersey that weather becomes princeton university. and on wednesday, march 22, he writes, a fine day to play baseball, but i am beaten for i can't catch or hits. he's not a great player. and then the following year, the college faculty will ban baseball as being unbecoming of a gentleman. this is the earliest written reference that we have to baseball. so already, the game is on college campuses, already it's being played by boys were much older than children, these are probably older teenagers were playing this game. a couple of other things to note here in the early going of the game, we have examples from the 1850s of the new york name and the massachusetts game. you can see in the new york game, the very familiar diamonds that we are all used to, but massachusetts had a competitive rival game, which was in the shape of a rectangle. and these two sort of battle for supremacy in the mid-19 century, but it was the new york game that was the popularity of t