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Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.
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.
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.
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 and born
* Abner Doubleday, American Civil War hero and supposed inventor of baseball was born in Ballston Spa.
The house he was born in is designated as a New York State landmark. Birthplace of Abner Doubleday
Nelson Doubleday was born in Brooklyn, New York to Frank Nelson Doubleday ( of French Huguenot descent, from a DuBaldy family ) and Neltje Blanchan.
They had a son Nelson Doubleday, Jr. ( born 1933 ) and a daughter Neltje ( born in 1934 ), named for Nelson's mother.
Nelson Doubleday, Jr. ( born July 20, 1933 ) was the president of Doubleday ( 1978-1986 ).
The Challenge was born out of the book " Our Story ," a joint project of the Dominion Institute and Doubleday Canada.

Doubleday and Ballston
The Abner Doubleday Little League and Babe Ruth Fields in Ballston Spa, New York, the town of his birth.

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His father, Ulysses F. Doubleday, fought in the War of 1812, published newspapers and books, and represented Auburn, New York for four years in the United States Congress.
In the summer of 1878 Doubleday lived in Mendham, New Jersey, and became a prominent member of the Theosophical Society.
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.
Chairman Mills himself, who had been a Civil War colleague of Doubleday and a member of the honor guard for Doubleday's body as it lay in state in New York City, never recalled hearing Doubleday describe his role as the inventor.
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.
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 ).
Joseph Fitzmyer, The Acts of the Apostles ( New York: Doubleday, 1998 ), p. 639 </ ref >
New York NY: Doubleday, 2004.
* Ford, J. Massyngberde ( 1975 ) Revelation, The Anchor Bible, New York: Doubleday ISBN 0-385-00895-3.
4, Editor-in-Chief: Freedman, David N. Doubleday ; New York, NY.
New York: Doubleday.
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.
New York: Doubleday, 2005, ISBN 0-7679-2086-4
New York: Doubleday, 1966.
New York: Doubleday, 1970.
New York: Doubleday, 1988.
Anchor Bible Reference Library ; New York: Doubleday.
New York, NY: Doubleday, 1961.

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