Baseball historian Barthel gives us what is, surprisingly, the first ever biography of Abner Doubleday (1819-1893). An able American soldier, Doubleday is better known for something he did not do – ...

Baseball's Unheralded Ancestry" explores baseball's independent growth and development in the province of Ontario.

In a notable decision on April 2, 1908, the Mills Commission, headed by Abraham G. Mills, credited Abner Doubleday with the creation of baseball. The commission declared that Doubleday formulated ...