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 ...

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 ...

The Baseball Hall of Fame—like many great American institutions—was founded by a fortune and a fiction. Its story begins before the Civil War and, at first, had nothing to do with baseball. In 1851, a ...

TRUE OR FALSE: Babe Ruth played baseball in Santa Barbara. True or false: As everyone knows, baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, NY, in 1839. Right? Answers: Yankee slugger Babe ...

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 ...