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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.
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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.
Doubleday Field is a minor league baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in Cooperstown, New York, near the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Doubleday Field at West Point, New York, where the Army Black Knights play at Johnson Stadium, is named in Doubleday's honor.
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 credited
* Abner Doubleday, sometimes apocryphally credited with inventing baseball
The team and its mascot are named after Abner Doubleday, the Civil War general and Auburn native apocryphally credited with inventing the game of baseball.
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On July 2, 1863, Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade replaced Doubleday with Maj. Gen. John Newton, a more junior officer from another corps.
Doubleday rode with Lincoln on the train to Gettysburg for the Gettysburg Address and Mr. and Mrs. Doubleday attended events with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln in Washington.
Despite a friendship with Albert Spalding, Chadwick was scornful of the attempts to have Abner Doubleday declared the inventor of baseball.
* Keaton, Buster ( with Charles Samuels ), My Wonderful World of Slapstick ( 1960 ) Doubleday, ( 1982 ) Da Capo Press ISBN 0-306-80178-7
* Footage of Lawrence of Arabia with publisher FN Doubleday and at a picnic
Crawford published her autobiography, A Portrait of Joan – written with Jane Kesner Ardmore – in 1962 through Doubleday.
An unabridged paperback edition was published in the late 1960s in arrangement with Doubleday by Fawcett Publications World Library, under its Crest Book imprint.
New American Library bought the paperback rights for $ 400, 000, which, according to King's contract with Doubleday, was split between them.
Asimov decided to turn the story into a novel, and on March 17 he left it with Walter I. Bradbury, the science fiction editor at Doubleday, to get his opinion.
* People of the Lake: Mankind and its Beginnings ( with Roger Lewin ) ( Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1978 )
* Origins Reconsidered ( with Roger Lewin ) ( Doubleday, 1992 )
* The Language of Life ( 1995 ), Doubleday hardcover: ISBN 0-385-47917-4, 1996 paperback: ISBN 0-385-48410-0, conversations with 34 poets
In 1964, The Sufis appeared, published by Doubleday, with a long introduction by Robert Graves.
He became the General Secretary of the American Section of the Theosophical Society in 1884, with Abner Doubleday as President.
* with Marlin Perkins ; Bayou Backwaters ; 1967, 2000 reprint edition, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-01101-6.
A further English edition was published in 1987, by Yale scholar Bentley Layton, called The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations ( Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1987 ).
* Marcello Simonetta, The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded: Doubleday website with slideshow of paintings and documents related to the Pazzi Conspiracy
* Take My Life by Eddie Cantor ( 1957 ) with Jane Kesner Ardmore ; Doubleday
* Prayer: My Soul's Adventure with God ( 1995 ), Doubleday ISBN 978-0-385-48505-0
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