Baseball historians long ago debunked the popular myth about Abner Doubleday inventing the game of baseball. Yet the Doubleday legacy lives on in places like Cooperstown, New York, where the Baseball ...

Baseball’s creation myth goes like this: A boy named Abner Doubleday invented baseball on a schoolyard near Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. Baseball’s Hall of Fame was built near those hallowed ...

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 ...

A baseball fan of any age has grown up with the established and often undisputed fact that Union soldier, Abner Doubleday (AD), created the game of baseball and that the game has been immortalized by ...

Long has Cooperstown, N.Y., held the claim to fame of being the birthplace of modern-day baseball. This contention has earned it a permanent spot in sports history, not only as the location of Abner ...

PHILADELPHIA − Joe DiMaggio got a hit in 56 consecutive games in 1941, a major league record that will probably never be broken. Or in the parlance of Phillies manager Rob Thomson, records like ...

During the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Maj. Gen. John Reynolds -- commander of the 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac -- was killed instantly after being shot in the neck. Reynolds' death could ...

Ahead of the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets Game 1 clash in the NLDS, the Phillies cited something interesting. According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today, he said on X “Phillies manager Rob ...