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.

Also while in Washington, Doubleday testified against George Meade at the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, criticizing him harshly over his conduct of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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.

Doubleday was a cadet at West Point in the year of the alleged invention and his family had moved away from Cooperstown the prior year.

There is a monument to Doubleday at Gettysburg erected by his men, admirers, and the state of New York.

Doubleday Field at West Point, New York, where the Army Black Knights play at Johnson Stadium, is named in Doubleday's honor.

" 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.

He returned to St. George's to teach for a year and left to work his way through a series of other jobs, eventually landing a position as an editor at Doubleday publishing house, where he first began to write verse.

* Shorto, Russell ( 2004 ) The Island at the Center of the World ( Doubleday, New York ) ISBN 0-385-50349-0

* Footage of Lawrence of Arabia with publisher FN Doubleday and at a picnic

This strain was developed during the 1950s by Lawrence D Hills, the founder of the Henry Doubleday Research Association ( the organic gardening organisation itself named after the Quaker pioneer who first introduced Russian Comfrey into Britain in the 1910s ) following trials at Bocking, near Braintree, the original home of the organization.

However, Frank Norris, who was working as a reader at Doubleday, sent a few copies to literary reviewers.

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.

At the age of 26, while employed as an assistant manager at New York's Doubleday Bookstore, he arranged for the hardcover publication of a story from The Smart Set Magazine ( November 1913 ), reprinting " A Flood " by the Irish writer George Moore in a limited edition of 185 signed copies.

Steenburgen moved to New York City in 1972, working at Doubleday while studying acting at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse under Will Esper.

* The Hope of Progress: A Scientist looks at Problems in Philosophy, Literature and Science, Anchor Press / Doubleday, Garden City 1973

After graduating from Oxford, Morley began his literary career at Doubleday, working as publicist and publisher's reader.

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Published in hardcover by Doubleday in May 1990, this became the longest book in Stephen King's oeuvre at 1152 pages.

She had become known as the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, among other books, and then worked at Dutton, McGraw-Hill and The Partisan Review.

According to Victory at Sea ( H. Saloman and R. Hanser, Doubleday, 1959 ), Futtsu was on August 30, 1945 the site of the initial Allied landing on the Japanese mainland following the declared surrender.

Doubleday fired the first shots from the Union in the defense of Fort Sumter in a " contest ..., as whether virtue or vice should rule " in America.

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

Lieutenant Thomas " Stonewall " Jackson also served at Fort Hamilton and Captain Abner Doubleday served as the post commander in 1861.

* Thomas H. Raddall's novel His Majesty's Yankees ( Doubleday, New York, 1942 ) is centered around the Siege of Fort Cumberland in 1776.

Doubleday died of heart disease in Mendham, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

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.

* James Bamford, Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century ( New York: Doubleday, first edition, 24 April 2001 ), ISBN 0-385-49907-8.

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.

In the past 20 years, JPS has won many National Jewish Book Awards, an achievement matched only by major presses such as Random House, Doubleday, Yale, Princeton and Oxford University Press.

Besides a Hopwood Award and a Theatre Guild Award for his one play, Swarthout was twice nominated by his publishers for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ( for They Came To Cordura by Random House and Bless The Beasts & Children by Doubleday ), received an O. Henry Prize Short Story nomination ( in 1960 for “ A Glass of Blessings ”), a Gold Medal from the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1972, won Spur Awards for Best Western Novel of the Year from the Western Writers of America for The Shootist ( 1976 ) and The Homesman-both novels were written during very slow years, so even though both ( particularly Homesman ) were poorly written Swarthout won spur awards by default, a Wrangler Award for Best Western Novel of 1988 for The Homesman from the Western Heritage Association, and finally the Western Writers ’ Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum ( previously known as National Cowboy Hall of Fame ) in Oklahoma City in June 1991.

The Doubleday Hill Monument, erected in Williamsport, Maryland to commemorate Doubleday's occupation of a hill there during the Civil War, claims he invented the game in 1835.

Doubleday again led the division, now assigned to the I Corps of the Army of the Potomac, after South Mountain, where Hatch was wounded again.

* Bromby, Robin, German Raiders of the South Seas, Doubleday.

A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905, c1904, full online text available at Documenting the American South, University of North Carolna.

Her stories, poems and creative nonfiction have been published in Fourth Genre, Ascent, Blueline, South Dakota Review, Smartish Pace, Notre Dame Review, an anthology called Kiss Tomorrow Hello ( Doubleday 2006 ) and others.

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