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Abner Doubleday

Born

in Ballston Spa, New York, The United States

June 26, 1819

Died

January 26, 1893

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A similar game to modern baseball predates American army officer Abner Doubleday, traditionally considered its inventor.

Abner Doubleday was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely remembered as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. Even though considerable evidence disputes this claim and despite the lack of solid evidence linking Doubleday to the origins of baseball, Cooperstown, New York became the new home, today the national baseball hall of fame and museum in 1937.

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	Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI 3.69 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1882 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 3.79 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1876 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	My Life in the Old Army: The Reminiscences of Abner Doubleday from the Collections of the New-York Historical Society by Abner Doubleday, Joseph E. Chance (Editor), Wil Martin (Illustrations) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Few persons appreciate the steadiness and courage required, when all around is in flight and confusion, for a force to advance steadily to the post of danger in front and meet the exulting enemy. Such men are heroes, and far more worthy of honor than those who fight in the full blaze of successful warfare.”
― Abner Doubleday, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI

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