Who invented baseball? By watching today's MLB players, many would not necessarily know how far baseball has come. Approximately 140 million people watched MLB games in 2019, mostly from the USA, but ...

Baseball has been around for a long time. It was one of the first sports invented, debuting in 1876. Since then, it's morphed and evolved into the game seen on television and in stands today. It's ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Kind of a silly question, really. But Bob McManaman of AZCentral.com asks it, and he concludes it would not be popular if someone -- say a guy named Ted Prisby -- invented it today, because the only ...

I am so sick of ESPN telling me how football is better than baseball. Recently I read Bob Costas' book, Fair Ball. I have to say, it made me ill. I realize it was written a number of years ago now, ...