Doubleday

[duhb-uhl-dey]

noun

1. Abner, 1819–93, U.S. army officer; sometimes credited with inventing the modern game of baseball.

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Mr. Howard has come to biography writing after a distinguished career in publishing at Doubleday Books, and he discourses with knowledge and zeal about Cowley’s second act as a revivalist and gatekeeper.

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By Margaret Atwood Doubleday: 624 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

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For decades, the accepted account of baseball’s origins was that it was invented by future Civil War general Abner Doubleday on a cow pasture in Cooperstown, N.Y. in 1839.

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That story has since been soundly debunked—Doubleday probably wasn’t even in Cooperstown at the time he supposedly created a whole new sport.

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North of the border, that’s not the only reason the Doubleday story doesn’t add up.

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