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 ...

UTICA -- Author JoAnn Bartlett will describe her new biography, "Abner Doubleday: His Life and Times (Looking Beyond the Myth)" at the Oneida County Historical Society on Saturday, Jan. 7. Bartett's ...

If you believe Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball, put down that Louisville Slugger – you just struck out. Although baseball is believed by many to be a strictly American game, its ...

Abner Doubleday was a general in the Civil War. The world will probably little note nor long remember what he did at Gettysburg* but it can never forget what he did at Cooperstown. In that sleepy ...

The Auburn City Council voted on Thursday to share the name Doubleday with Cooperstown. It seems the village of Cooperstown has been using the name for decades in reference to a village-owned baseball ...