Baseball historian Barthel gives us what is, surprisingly, the first ever biography of Abner Doubleday (1819-1893 ... The bulk of the book, of course, covers the Civil War. For Doubleday, that war ...

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

Mills, credited Abner Doubleday with the creation of baseball. The commission declared that Doubleday formulated the essential rules of baseball in 1839 in the small town of Cooperstown ...