It’s a common misconception that Civil War Union General Abner Doubleday invented the sport of baseball in 1839. A special commission created by baseball executive Albert Spalding determined in 1908 ...

Major General Abner Doubleday poses for a portrait on November 29. 1862. (Photo courtesy Library of Congress/Getty Images) Getty Images Until not too terribly long ago, if you asked most people about ...

The Baseball Hall of Fame—like many great American institutions—was founded by a fortune and a fiction. Its story begins before the Civil War and, at first, had nothing to do with baseball. In 1851, a ...

TRUE OR FALSE: Babe Ruth played baseball in Santa Barbara. True or false: As everyone knows, baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, NY, in 1839. Right? Answers: Yankee slugger Babe ...

If you head out to a Padres game this month, you might assume you’re enjoying the national pastime invented by a man called Doubleday in a bucolic place called Cooperstown. But this origin story is a ...

On one end of baseball evolution is the supremely talented Mike Trout, and on the other is a couple of pieces of paper from 1857 under lock and key at an auction house in Laguna Niguel. The ...

The Doubleday myth refers to the belief that baseball was invented in 1839 by future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York. A claim that Doubleday invented baseball was ...

Most people who have an inkling of baseball history think Albert Goodwill Spalding, the old New York Knickerbockers, and Branch Rickey must be rolling in their graves right now. In the midst of an ...

Kind of a silly question, really. But Bob McManaman of AZCentral.com asks it, and he concludes it would not be popular if someone -- say a guy named Ted Prisby -- invented it today, because the only ...

On one end of baseball evolution is the supremely talented Mike Trout, and on the other is a couple of pieces of paper from 1857 under lock and key at an auction house in Laguna Niguel, Calif. The ...