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 ...

The ‘Father of Baseball,’ Abner Doubleday, is about to turn 200 years old. In downtown Ballston Spa there is a small, yellow house with a blue historical marker out front. It says Doubleday was born ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...