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

Doubleday was born in Ballston Spa, New York, in a small house on the corner of Washington and Fenwick Streets.

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.

The Doubleday myth appears to have rested solely on the testimony of one elderly admirer who was later committed to an insane asylum.

Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's division of the Army of the Potomac.

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.

During the winter, the I Corps was reorganized and Doubleday assumed command of the 3rd Division.

When his corps commander, Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds, was killed very early in the fighting, Doubleday found himself in command of the corps.

Doubleday was humiliated by this snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade, but he returned to division command and fought well for the remainder of the battle.

Doubleday assumed administrative duties in the defenses of Washington, D. C., where he was in charge of courts martial, which gave him legal experience that he used after the war.

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.

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.

" 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 Swiss town of Vevey, where he was a resident during his final years, named a park in his honour in 1980 and erected a replica of the Doubleday statue there in 1982.

The novel, " Chicano " by Richard Vasquez, was the first novel about Mexican-Americans to be released by a major publisher ( Doubleday, 1970 ).

Despite a friendship with Albert Spalding, Chadwick was scornful of the attempts to have Abner Doubleday declared the inventor of baseball.

In 1949, Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion on Frederik Pohl, on the condition it was expanded to seventy thousand words and the title changed to something more science fiction oriented ; it was published in January of 1950 as Pebble in the Sky.

The Stars, Like Dust was originally serialised under the title Tyrann in Galaxy Science Fiction from January to March 1951, and was published as a novel by Doubleday later that year.

The Currents of Space was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction from October to December 1952 before being published by Doubleday as a novel the same year.

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 ).

Doubleday photo displayed at Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston, South Carolina | Charleston harbor

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.

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.

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.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1922 at A Celebration of Women Writers

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.

The story was reprinted in the anthology Voices of the Exiled ( Doubleday 1994 ); the novel into which it was incorporated, Out West, appeared in 1996.

* Oleg Penkovsky, The Penkovskiy Papers: The Russian Who Spied for the West, Doubleday, New York, 1966.

* Sides, Hampton, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, Doubleday ( 2006 ), hardcover, 462 pages, ISBN 978-0-385-50777-6

The Black West, Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971

* Sides, Hampton, Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, Doubleday ( 2006 ), hardcover, 462 pages,

* Samuels, Peggy, The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West, Doubleday.

Blood and Thunder ( Doubleday, 2006 ) focuses on the life and times of controversial frontiersman Kit Carson, and his role in the conquest of the American West.

* West of the Sun, ( Doubleday 1953 ); read online

* Michael D. West, The Immortal Cell, Doubleday ( 2003 ) ISBN 978-0-385-50928-2