Abner Doubleday is remembered, if recalled at all anymore, as the "inventor" of baseball. Baseball myth says Doubleday invented baseball by tossing a ball around old Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in ...

Baseball’s creation myth goes like this: A boy named Abner Doubleday invented baseball on a schoolyard near Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. Baseball’s Hall of Fame was built near those hallowed ...

Baseball historian Barthel gives us what is, surprisingly, the first ever biography of Abner Doubleday (1819-1893). An able American soldier, Doubleday is better known for something he did not do – ...

Up the hill from John F. Kennedy’s grave and behind Arlington House on the western side of Arlington National Cemetery lies the purported inventor of America’s pastime. The former Union Army General ...

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