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 ...
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 ...
Up the hill from John F. Kennedy’s grave and behind Arlington House on the western side of Arlington National Cemetery lies the purported inventor of America’s pastime. The former Union Army General ...
TRUE OR FALSE: Babe Ruth played baseball in Santa Barbara. True or false: As everyone knows, baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, NY, in 1839. Right? Answers: Yankee slugger Babe ...
Baseball may have found its birth certificate. And with it a new birth date, and new founding father. Coinciding with the start of the professional baseball season, a set of game-changing 1857 ...
Heroic creativity is part of the American creed. Our fathers founded. Edison invented the light bulb; Bell, the telephone; the Wrights, airplanes. That’s how this country rolls. Thus it makes sense ...
Kind of a silly question, really. But Bob McManaman of AZCentral.com asks it, and he concludes it would not be popular if someone -- say a guy named Ted Prisby -- invented it today, because the only ...
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