The myth about Doubleday inventing the game of baseball actually came from a Colorado mining engineer.

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.

The myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 was once widely promoted and widely believed.

He was also one of the seven members of the Mills Commission formed by Albert Spalding, the group that gave credence to the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball.

To his credit, Doubleday never claimed to have invented baseball.

This would have been a surprise to Doubleday.

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

The following are imprints that exist or have existed under Doubleday:

No written records in the decade between 1839 and 1849 have ever been found to corroborate these claims, nor could Doubleday be interviewed ( he died in 1893 ).

Doubleday was not in Cooperstown in 1839 and may never have visited the town.

The prequel, of necessity, resembles The Lord of the Rings ; the decision of Doubleday to issue the work as a trilogy increased that resemblance ; and some critics have seen McKiernan as simply imitating Tolkien's epic work.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

After the Civil War, Doubleday mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24, 1865, reverted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and became the colonel of the 35th U. S. Infantry in September 1867.

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.

After three years of searching, on December 30, 1907, Spalding received a letter that ( erroneously ) declared baseball to be the invention of Abner Doubleday.

* Bamford, James ; The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9 / 11 to the Eavesdropping on America, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-52132-4 ; 2008

* 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.

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.

A replacement bronze eagle by sculptor John Doubleday was placed on the re-sited column.

Shaffer's memoir, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin ' Show-biz Saga ( co-authored by David Ritz ) was published by Flying Dolphin Press ( an imprint of Random House Inc .' s Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group ) on October 6, 2009.

When published by Doubleday in 1906, As the popularity of the Appeal to Reason increased, so did the attacks on Wayland and Warren.

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.

* Moyers on Democracy ( 2008 ), Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-52380-6

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, and it was published in January of 1950 as Pebble in the Sky.

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.

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.

Abner Graves, whose testimony was the basis of the Mills Commission claim that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839, named townball as the " old " game that the boys of Cooperstown, New York played before baseball.

So, Asimov eventually wrote the book in his own way ( completely different in plot from what had written ), which was eventually published by Doubleday in 1987 as Fantastic Voyage II and " dealt not with competing submarines in the bloodstream, but with one submarine, with American hero cooperating ( not entirely voluntarily ) with four Soviet crew members ".

With some expansion, he still maintained Doubleday as a family publishing business, with one associated book club.

But CBN's stay on channel 33 wouldn't be a long one: Doubleday Broadcasting wanted to get rid of its independent station, KDTV on channel 39.

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.

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.

Doubleday editor William Thompson ( who would eventually become King's close friend ), sent a telegram to King's house which read: " Carrie Officially A Doubleday Book.

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.

Leave it to find its own readers who will hear your voice spreading, not those envisaged by Doubleday.

The firm was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday, who had formed a partnership with the magazine publisher Samuel McClure.

The translation was overseen by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ( who was an editor at Doubleday at the time ) and Martha Levin.

Doubleday first married Neltje De Graff ( 1865-1918 ), who published several books on gardens and birds.

While seeking a publisher, Gonick received early support from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who worked as an editor at Doubleday and championed The Cartoon History of the Universes publication.

* Missing Links – ( Doubleday ) – A novel about an eccentric group of golfers who are regulars at the worst public golf course in America.

Talese is married to another writer, Nan Talese, a New York editor who runs the Nan A. Talese / Doubleday imprint.

At age 18, Neltje married John Turner Sargent, Sr., who was already working at Doubleday, and they had two children.

On 23 March 1951, Asimov met with his agent, Frederik Pohl, and Walter I. Bradbury, then the science fiction editor at Doubleday & Co., who had a proposal for him.

For contractual reasons, the singing of soprano Ann Blyth ( who originally sang with Lanza on two of the numbers ) has been replaced by that of Elizabeth Doubleday on this disc.

Lies My Mother Never Told Me, a memoir, describes her life growing up in Paris and Sagaponack as the child of a celebrated author and a beautiful, competitive and witty mother, Gloria Jones, a former actress and a stand-in for Marilyn Monroe, who became an editor at Doubleday with her friend, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Meredith led the brigade in combat for the first time at Fredericksburg, where he drew the ire of division commander Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday, who temporarily replaced Meredith with Col. Lysander Cutler.

Hellhound on His Trail ( Doubleday 2010 ) is about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the largest manhunt in American history to capture James Earl Ray, who pled guilty in 1969 and served the rest of his life in prison.

First published in the United Kingdom on September 27, 1927 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the United States on March 2, 1928 by Doubleday, Doran, it introduces the irrepressible pub raconteur Mr Mulliner, who narrates all nine of the book's stories.

Jazz guitarist Larry Coryell, who had developed his career in Seattle while a university student, recommended Seattle-based Marcus Doubleday on trumpet.

Neltje Blanchan De Graff Doubleday ( October 23, 1865 – February 21, 1918 ) was a United States scientific historian and nature writer who published several books on wildflowers and birds under the pen name Neltje Blanchan.

" The award was funded in Blanchan's memory by her grand-daughter, Neltje Doubleday Kings, an abstract artist who served on the board of the Council from 1985 to 1988.