Doubleday
Americannoun
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
By Dan Brown Doubleday: 688 pages, $38 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
At social media marketing agency We Are Social, some employees have even worn hot pants to work, according to managing director, Lucy Doubleday.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025
The path to U.S. publication, by Doubleday in 1952, was not a smooth one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2025
Doubleday an unknown quantity, but certainly nothing spectacular.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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