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 ...

It’s a common misconception that Civil War Union General Abner Doubleday invented the sport of baseball in 1839. A special commission created by baseball executive Albert Spalding determined in 1908 ...

Major General Abner Doubleday poses for a portrait on November 29. 1862. (Photo courtesy Library of Congress/Getty Images) Getty Images Until not too terribly long ago, if you asked most people about ...

Baseball historians long ago debunked the popular myth about Abner Doubleday inventing the game of baseball. Yet the Doubleday legacy lives on in places like Cooperstown, New York, where the Baseball ...

Long has Cooperstown, N.Y., held the claim to fame of being the birthplace of modern-day baseball. This contention has earned it a permanent spot in sports history, not only as the location of Abner ...

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — Abner Doubleday's boyhood hometown is celebrating his birth 200 years ago. The story that Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 at Cooperstown, New York, has been discredited.

SI's Tom Wilson and Eric Nusbaum, author of "author of "Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between," discuss the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball. Please see ...

If you believe Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball, put down that Louisville Slugger – you just struck out. Although baseball is believed by many to be a strictly American game, its ...

Every Tuesday and Thursday,Too Far From Town shines a light on the 42 (really 43) minor league baseball teams in danger of losing their major league baseball affiliations, effectively leaving them for ...