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 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 ).

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

* Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion by Alan F. Segal, Doubleday, 2004

Their logo of the anchor and dolphin is represented today in the symbols and names used by some modern publishers such as Doubleday.

Statue of Chaplin as the Tramp by John Doubleday in Leicester Square, London

Outside the centre stands a bronze statue of Thomas, by John Doubleday.

* Leslie Caron, Vengeance, published by Doubleday ( US ), Weidenfeld & Nicolson ( UK ), André Balland ( France ), 1982, ISBN 0-385-17896-4

According to the Saintly Bible website, every Saint book published between 1928 and 1983 saw the first edition issued by Hodder and Stoughton in the UK ( a company that originally published only religious books ) and The Crime Club ( an imprint of Doubleday that specialized in mystery and detective fiction ) in the United States.

* In Arabian Nights: A search of Morocco through its stories and storytellers by Tahir Shah, Doubleday, 2008.

* The Dark Night: A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism ( Translated and Edited by E. Allison Peers ), Doubleday, 1959.

A Talent to Amuse: A Biography of Noël Coward by Sheridan Morley, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1969, pp. 200 – 214, 223

* Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: A Consideration of the Rosary by J. Neville Ward ( Doubleday, 1973 ); revised as Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: Meditations on the Rosary ( Seabury Classics, 2005 )-an ecumenical Methodist minister's book on the Rosary.

* 15-Book Reading Order as Suggested by Asimov Edited from the " Author's Note " of Prelude to Foundation Doubleday 1988 hardcover edition

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.

Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, " Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada.

Plays, volume 1 ( New York: Hill & Wang, 1958 ); " Médée " translated in The Modern Theatre, volume 5, edited by Eric Bentley ( Garden City, N. Y .: Doubleday, 1957 ).

* The Death of Mr Baltisberger, translated by Michael Henry Heim, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975

With the establishment of a Canadian subsidiary of Doubleday and Co., a firm which McClelland and Stewart had previously held Canadian distribution deals with, Jack started the move to a more Canadian-based catalogue: " I decided that I didn't want to be dependent on foreign agencies.

* Some of her papers ( 1914 – 1918 ) are held in the Frank N. Doubleday and Nelson Doubleday Collection at the Princeton University Library.

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.

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.

He formally requested reinstatement as I Corps commander, but Meade refused, and Doubleday left Gettysburg on July 7 for Washington.