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Abner Doubleday

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Abner Doubleday 1819-93, once credited as originator of baseball and Union general in the American Civil War, b. Saratoga co., N.Y., grad. West Point, 1842. The A. G. Mills commission (1905-8) investigated the origin of baseball and, based upon a single, unsubstantiated letter from an elderly man who later died in an insane asylum, declared that in 1839 Doubleday invented the game at Cooperstown, N.Y. In fact, Doubleday's obituary described him as a man who did not care for outdoor sports, and scholars since have effectively discredited the Cooperstown myth. Doubleday served in the Mexic... Read more
Doubleday, Abner
Doubleday, Abner (1819–93) Union army...Ballston Spa, New York. Doubleday served at Monterrey (1846...the Seminoles in Florida. Doubleday claimed to have aimed and...military in 1873. Although Doubleday is popularly recognized... Read more
Abner Doubleday
...at Cooperstown, N.Y., leading to the choice of Cooperstown as the site of the Baseball Hall of Fame. It was later proved that Doubleday was not in Cooperstown in 1839. Alexander Cartwright . Abner Doubleday Abner Doubleday Abner Doubleday Read more

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