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 ...
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 ...
The Baseball Hall of Fame—like many great American institutions—was founded by a fortune and a fiction. Its story begins before the Civil War and, at first, had nothing to do with baseball. In 1851, a ...
ATLANTA — Historians may argue about the origins of baseball, but a growing — and extremely unbiased — body of evidence suggests the Atlanta Braves actually invented the sport sometime between batting ...
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