The principal tactic in controlling the ball was giving it to Abner Haynes, the flashy halfback.

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

Abner spent his childhood in Auburn and later was sent to Cooperstown to live with his uncle and attend a private preparatory high school.

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.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

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.

Abner is only referred to incidentally in Saul's history ( 1 Samuel 17: 55, 26: 5 ), and is not mentioned in the account of the disastrous battle of Gilboa when Saul's power was crushed.

In the general engagement which followed, Abner was defeated and put to flight.

As Asahel would not desist from the pursuit, though warned, Abner was compelled to slay him in self-defence.

The real reason that Joab killed Abner was that he became a threat to his rank of general.

" 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.

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.

( Leviticus was actually much closer to Capp's later villains Lem and Luke Scragg, than to the much more appealing and innocent Li ' l Abner.

Also during this period, Capp was working at night on samples for the strip that would eventually become Li ' l Abner.

At its peak, Li ' l Abner was read daily by 70 million Americans ( the U. S. population at the time was only 180 million ), with adult readers far outnumbering children.

Capp was just as likely to parody himself ; his self-caricature made frequent, tongue-in-cheek appearances in Li ' l Abner.

Li ' l Abner was also the subject of the first book-length, scholarly assessment of an American comic strip ever published.

It was later reprinted in The World of Li ' l Abner ( 1953 ).

Li ' l Abner was censored for the first, but not the last time in September 1947, and was pulled from papers by Scripps-Howard.

In 1954, when Capp was applying for a Boston television license, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) received an anonymous packet of pornographic Li ' l Abner drawings.

During most of his tenure with Capp, Frazetta's primary responsibility — along with various specialty art, such as a series of Li ' l Abner greeting cards — was tight-penciling the Sunday pages from studio roughs.

Seizing the youngest but only surviving of Saul's sons, Ish-bosheth, Abner set him up as king over Israel at Mahanaim, east of the Jordan.

Almost immediately after, however, Joab, who had been sent away, perhaps intentionally returned and slew Abner at the gate of Hebron.

Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

New Albany was founded in July 1813 when three brothers from Albany, New York — Joel, Abner, and Nathaniel Scribner — arrived at the Falls of the Ohio and named the site after their home.

Starting in the 1930s, WLS had been an affiliate of the Blue Network of the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ), and as such aired the popular Fibber McGee and Molly and Lum and Abner comedy programs ( both produced at the studios of Chicago's NBC-owned stations, WENR and WMAQ ) during their early years.

It is often claimed that MBS was launched primarily as a vehicle for the Western serial, but Lum and Abner was no less popular at the time.

Capp also excelled at product endorsement, and Li ' l Abner characters were often featured in mid-century American advertising campaigns.

In October 1947, Li ' l Abner met Rockwell P. Squeezeblood, head of the abusive and corrupt Squeezeblood Syndicate, a thinly veiled dig at UFS.

Drawn by cartoonist Steve Stiles, the new Abner was approved by Capp's widow and brother, Elliott Caplin, but Al Capp's daughter, Julie Capp, objected at the last minute and permission was withdrawn.

The first Li ' l Abner movie was made at RKO in 1940, starring Jeff York ( credited as Granville Owen ), Martha O ' Driscoll, Mona Ray and Johnnie Morris.

A much more successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip, also entitled Li ' l Abner, opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour.

Howard started circulating the story that his corps ' failure had actually been triggered by the collapse of Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday's I Corps to the west, but this excuse was never accepted at the time or by history — the reverse was actually true — and the reputation of the XI Corps was ruined.

Abner Doubleday fired a shot at the Ironclad Battery at Cummings Point.

Acton Monument, gravesite of Abner Hosmer and Isaac Davis ( soldier ) | Isaac Davis, who fell at Old North Bridge on April 19, 1775.

Palmer was a trained singer with a music degree from the University of Illinois, where he had also played football ; at 6 ' 4 " and 228 pounds, Palmer had the right " look " to play the Li ' l Abner.

Though Daisy Mae, with the help of Stupefyin ' Jones ( any man who looks at her freezes ), almost succeeds in catching Abner, Evil Eye Fleagle uses his evil eye to freeze everyone in the race, and Appasionata calmly walks up to Abner and claims him as hers.

In Dogpatch, Daisy Mae concludes that the reason she couldn't win Abner is that she, at age seventeen, is too old and no longer beautiful, and Marryin ' Sam joins her lament (" I'm Past My Prime ").

He also thought that too much of the libretto was spent explaining the Dogpatch milieu, which Donnelly assumed would be familiar to most audience members since Li ' l Abner was at that time a very popular comic strip.

A story that ran for several weeks in the Sunday comics of Li ' l Abner during 1967 concerned the creation of a joke, never actually revealed, that was so funny that anyone who heard it immediately died laughing.

Although work was supposed to continue on on the Lane – Lerner Li ' l Abner, this version never appeared, and My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe's adaptation of Pygmalion, opened in 1956, becoming the hit musical of the decade.

As well as inspiring the program and its characters, Pine Ridge is also home to the Lum and Abner Museum, which opened in the 1970s and currently features on the National Register of Historic Places.

It was opened in 1968, and was based on the comic strip Li ' l Abner, created by cartoonist Al Capp and set in a fictional village called Dogpatch.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, in 1883 Abner Robbins opened a store in the locality and he named the place " Gouge Eye " to commemorate a local dispute.