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 ...

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 ...

Up the hill from John F. Kennedy’s grave and behind Arlington House on the western side of Arlington National Cemetery lies the purported inventor of America’s pastime. The former Union Army General ...

Abner Doubleday is remembered, if recalled at all anymore, as the "inventor" of baseball. Baseball myth says Doubleday invented baseball by tossing a ball around old Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in ...

Heroic creativity is part of the American creed. Our fathers founded. Edison invented the light bulb; Bell, the telephone; the Wrights, airplanes. That’s how this country rolls. Thus it makes sense ...

Baseball season is here, and Jersey’s Best Podcast is ready to teach you all about the Garden State’s connections to the sport. The latest episode of Jersey’s Best Podcast is out now on Spotify, Apple ...

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 ...