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.

Abner was indignant at the rebuke, and immediately opened negotiations with David, who welcomed him on the condition that his wife Michal should be restored to him.

" 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.

Illustration from the Morgan Bible of Abner ( in green ) taking Michal away from Palti, son of Laish | Paltiel.

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

In 1946 Capp created a special full-color comic book, Al Capp by Li ' l Abner, to be distributed by the Red Cross to encourage the thousands of amputee veterans returning from the war.

" In 1950, Capp introduced a cartoonist character named " Happy Vermin "— a caricature of Fisher — who hired Abner to draw his comic strip in a dimly lit closet, ( after sacking his previous " temporary " assistant of 20 years, who had been cut off from all his friends in the process ).

However, Frazetta returned briefly a few years later to draw a public service comic book called Li ' l Abner and the Creatures from Drop-Outer Space, distributed by the Job Corps in 1965.

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

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

Li ' l Abner was censored in September 1947 and was pulled from papers by Scripps-Howard.

He procures the joke from Abner, and the government agents learn of this development too late to prevent him from reading it on national television.

It turns out, however, that before Bob Hope obtained the joke from him, Abner had read the joke, not understood it, and substituted his own favourite joke.

The name was taken from Al Capp's comic strip Li ' l Abner.

The term " Skunk Works " came from Al Capp's satirical, hillbilly comic strip Li ’ l Abner, which was immensely popular in the 1940s and ' 50s.

Radio comedy ran the gamut from the small town humor of Lum and Abner, Herb Shriner and Minnie Pearl to the dialect characterizations of Mel Blanc and the caustic sarcasm of Henry Morgan.

Other shows were adapted from comic strips, such as Blondie, Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, The Gumps, Li ' l Abner, Little Orphan Annie, Popeye the Sailor, Red Ryder, Reg ' lar Fellers, Terry and the Pirates and Tillie the Toiler.

Abner Howell ; he and his family migrated from Pennsylvania.

Post is best known for his historical detective " Uncle Abner ", who appeared in stories that were serialized in American newspapers from 1911 onwards.

The town of Weed gets its name from the founder of the local lumber mill and pioneer Abner Weed, who discovered that the area's strong winds were helpful in drying lumber.

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.

The community's name was from the area's primary land-owning family since an 1801 purchase by Abner Linthicum.

They purchased about of land for $ 2, 000. 00 from General Abner Lacock.