Abner Doubleday

Forget Abner Doubleday, Alexander Cartwright and that rounders theory—the seeds of our national pastime were planted four millennia ago on the banks of the Nile

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Christmas came early to Minorca this year. I was sitting in the middle of the Mediterranean, brooding over the fact that, for the first time in 30 years, I was out of range and had missed the World Series, when along...

THE MYTHSSirs:This seems to be the year for taking potshots at Abner Doubleday, whom Harold Peterson has failed to prove did not invent baseball in 1839 (Baseball's Johnny Apple-seed, April 14). How about the...