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 ...

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 ...

Abner Doubleday is commonly thought of as the father of American Baseball. It’s a history worth celebrating, especially on the Saratoga County native’s birthday. But the line between history and myth ...

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 ...

In 1903, the British sportswriter Henry Chadwick published an article speculating that baseball derived from a British game called rounders, which Chadwick had played as a boy in England. But baseball ...

A baseball fan of any age has grown up with the established and often undisputed fact that Union soldier, Abner Doubleday (AD), created the game of baseball and that the game has been immortalized by ...