Gen. Abner Doubleday died Thursday at His home in Meudham, N.J. The General came from a distinguished family, his father being a Congressman from Connecticut. He was born in Ballston Spa ...

Finally, finally, finally. It appears spring weather has arrived, albeit fashionably late. It’s May, the grass is greening up, the robins are flying, the ice is gone, and we are finally ...

"Faraway the American people introduced baseball -- how interesting it is." So wrote Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki, who was mistakenly credited with com･･･ ...

At 3:13 p.m. EDT, Cleveland will experience a total solar eclipse — a once-in-generations event — for the first time since 1806, 13 years before the birth of Abner Doubleday, the Civil War ...

In the United States, it was long believed that American Civil War hero Abner Doubleday, a major general of the Union Army, invented baseball in his youth. In 1939, the supposed 100th anniversary ...