Abner Doubleday was born 193 years ago yesterday. He would go on to live an exciting life filled with impressive accomplishments, but it is actually what he didn't do that has made him famous.

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 ...

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BALLSTON SPA — Throughout Ballston Spa, there are a number of visible tributes to Abner Doubleday, a Union Civil War officer who was credited with inventing baseball. A blue-and-gold state historical ...

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) Abner Doubleday's boyhood hometown is celebrating his birth 200 years ago. Jun 26, 2019 — BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) Abner Doubleday's boyhood hometown is celebrating his birth ...

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 ...

Confederate cannons had pounded Fort Sumter since 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, when Capt. Abner Doubleday, a Ballston Spa native, aimed his big guns. Doubleday, an abolitionist and the only public ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the popularity of the MLB, and baseball in general, it was understandable that there would be an attempt to determine the origins of the game. That was what the Mills Commission attempted to do ...

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 ...