Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

Fort Sumter Medal bearing the likeness of Robert Anderson ( major ) | Major Robert Anderson, and presented to Abner Doubleday.

The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

Doubleday Field is a minor league baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in Cooperstown, New York, near the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Abner Doubleday Little League and Babe Ruth Fields in Ballston Spa, New York, the town of his birth.

* Beckenbaugh, Terry L. " Abner Doubleday.

* Doubleday, Abner.

My Life in the Old Army: The Reminiscences of Abner Doubleday.

" Abner Doubleday and Theosophy in America: 1879-1884.

* Doubleday, Abner.

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After three years of searching, on December 30, 1907, Spalding received a letter that ( erroneously ) declared baseball to be the invention of Abner Doubleday.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

* 1819 – Abner Doubleday, American general ( d. 1893 )

One among them was Abner Holt who with his family traveled to Howard County, Missouri, in 1819.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

!," a self-portrait by Al Capp, excerpted from theApril 16 – 17, 1951 Li ' l Abner strips.

" How to Read Li ' l Abner Intelligently " from Mass Culture: Popular Arts in America, pp. 218 – 224 ( 1957 ) Free Press

* Capp, Al, Li ' l Abner Dailies — 27 volumes ( 1988 – 1999 ) Kitchen Sink Press

* Capp, Al, Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Frazetta Years — 4 volumes ( 2003 – 2004 ) Dark Horse Comics

* Inge, M. Thomas, " Li ' l Abner, Snuffy and Friends " from Comics and the U. S. South, pp. 3 – 27 ( 2012 ) Univ.

* Dogpatch and Li ' l Abner on Broadway in Life, January 14, 1957, pp. 71 – 83

* 1860 – Abner Powell, American baseball player ( d. 1953 )

* 1937 – Abner Haynes, American football player

* September 19 – Abner Haynes, American football player

* August 13 – The comic strip Li ' l Abner is first published in US newspapers.

The earliest manuscripts, such as the fourth-century AD Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 do not contain the verses describing David coming each day with food for his brothers, nor 1 Samuel 17: 55 – 58 in which Saul seems unaware of David ’ s identity, referring to him as " this youth " and asking Abner to find out the name of his father.

After about two decades of controversy, invention of America's " national game " of baseball was attributed to Abner Doubleday by the Mills Commission ( 1905 – 1907 ).

" Abner Greene has pointed to evidence that " the Florida Supreme Court thought all manual recounts – whether protest or contest – must be completed no later than December 12.

* Abner Doubleday ( 1757 – 1812 ), Grandfather of Abner Doubleday, inventor of baseball.

* Abner Spector ( 1918 – 2010 ), songwriter, record producer ( Sally Go ' Round the Roses ), record company executive

Abner Read ( 5 April 1821 – 7 July 1863 ) was an officer of the United States Navy who distinguished himself in the American Civil War.

* Al Capp's Li ' l Abner ( 1949 – 1955 ) 28 issues ( Toby )

More recently, Dark Horse Comics reprinted the limited series Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Frazetta Years, in four full-color volumes covering the Sunday pages from 1954 – 1961.

" How to Read Li ' l Abner Intelligently " from Mass Culture: Popular Arts in America, pp. 218 – 224 ( 1957 ) Free Press