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 ...

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Major General Abner Doubleday poses for a portrait on November 29. 1862. (Photo courtesy Library of Congress/Getty Images) Getty Images Until not too terribly long ago, if you asked most people about ...

If you head out to a Padres game this month, you might assume you’re enjoying the national pastime invented by a man called Doubleday in a bucolic place called Cooperstown. But this origin story is a ...

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Dodgers baseman Freddie Freeman is alive and well after his terrifying collision in the visiting dugout on August 12th against the Royals. Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh gets more tone deaf ...