DOOLEY Observed: Say it ain't so ...........Abner Doubleday (for inventing baseball)

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Say it ain't so ...........Abner Doubleday (for inventing baseball)

Abner Doubleday was a Civil War general and abolitionist who famously ordered the first Union shots in defense of Fort Sumter. But while he had a distinguished military career, Doubleday is more commonly remembered for inventing baseball—even though he did no such thing.

The story dates back to 1905, when former National League president A.G. Mills headed a commission to investigate the origins of America’s favorite pastime.

Based on a letter from a man named Abner Graves, the commission incorrectly concluded that Doubleday had invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

In truth, Doubleday was attending West Point in 1839 and had never claimed any involvement with baseball.

Nevertheless, the myth persisted for years, and the Baseball Hall of Fame was even established in Cooperstown on the sport’s mistaken centennial in 1939.