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Doubleday Field is a minor league baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in Cooperstown, New York, near the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Doubleday Field at West Point, New York, where the Army Black Knights play at Johnson Stadium, is named in Doubleday's honor.
This is an official New York-Penn League game played at Doubleday Field in conjunction with the Hall of Fame's Induction Weekend festivities.
Doubleday Field is a baseball stadium in Cooperstown, New York named for Abner Doubleday and located two village blocks from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Doubleday Field, view from behind home plate.
Each year from 1940 to 2008, Doubleday Field hosted the Hall of Fame Game.
Despite the attraction of baseball history and charm, Doubleday Field is small, old, has no lights, and fell well below Triple-A standards.
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Doubleday is often mistakenly credited with inventing baseball, although he never made such a claim, and there is no evidence to support it.
One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.
Doubleday died of heart disease in Mendham, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely remembered as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in 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.
There is a monument to Doubleday at Gettysburg erected by his men, admirers, and the state of New York.
Their logo of the anchor and dolphin is represented today in the symbols and names used by some modern publishers such as Doubleday.
Andronikos is the main protagonist in Michael Arnold's Against the Fall of Night ( Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1975 ), as well as Ange Vlachos ' Their Most Serene Majesties ( Vanguard Press, 1964 ).
The primary complaint is that touting Cartwright as the " true " inventor of the modern game was an effort to find an alternative single individual to counter the " invention " of baseball by Abner Doubleday.
Publisher Nelson Doubleday is a seasonal resident.
The house he was born in is designated as a New York State landmark. Birthplace of Abner Doubleday
" The introduction is not included in Octagon Press editions of the book after 1983 but has always been included in the Anchor / Doubleday editions.
The first ( Doubleday hardcover ) edition of the novel is unusually rare ; the publisher pulped a significant part of the original print run in error when the order went out to destroy remaining copies of Zelazny's older book Creatures of Light and Darkness.
The Hand of Oberon is the fourth book in The Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny published in book form by Doubleday in 1976.
Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 4, 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York.
The Baker Street Irregulars is also the name of an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Doubleday Editor Christopher Morley.
His second novel, A Gradual Ruin, was published by Doubleday Canada in 2004 and is now available in paperback.
The US first edition ( Doubleday, 1980 ) is dedicated to Harlan Ellison.
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is a children's fantasy by Terry Pratchett, published by Doubleday in 2001.
* Beauty ( Doubleday, 1991 ) ( Revised UK edition is author's preferred text ) -- Locus Award winner, 1992
The rubab is sometimes considered the national instrument of Afghanistan, and is called the " lion of instruments ";< ref > Doubleday, pg.
Doubleday and baseball
To his credit, Doubleday never claimed to have invented baseball.
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.
" At his death, Doubleday left many letters and papers, none of which describe baseball, or give any suggestion that he considered himself a prominent person in the evolution of the game.
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.
The myth about Doubleday inventing the game of baseball actually came from a Colorado mining engineer.
Despite a friendship with Albert Spalding, Chadwick was scornful of the attempts to have Abner Doubleday declared the inventor of baseball.
With the myth of Abner Doubleday inventing baseball debunked and 46 years after his death, Cartwright in 1938, was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in the executive category.
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 Doubleday ( 1757 – 1812 ), Grandfather of Abner Doubleday, inventor of baseball.
* Abner Doubleday ( 1819 – 93 ), Civil War general and purported inventor of baseball.
* Abner Doubleday, American Civil War hero and supposed inventor of baseball was born in Ballston Spa.
* Abner Doubleday, sometimes apocryphally credited with inventing baseball
The myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 was once widely promoted and widely believed.
Doubleday himself never made such a claim ; he left many letters and papers, but they contain no description of baseball or any suggestion that he considered himself prominent in the game's history.
His New York Times obituary makes no mention of baseball, nor does a 1911 Encyclopædia article about Doubleday.
The Mills Commission concluded that Doubleday had invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York in 1839 ; that Doubleday had invented the word " baseball ," designed the diamond, indicated fielders ' positions, and written the rules.
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